Spiritual Crafting: Another Strategy to Transform the Meaning of Work

DOI

10.2991/icbmr-17.2017.40How to use a DOI?

Keywords

devalued; job crafting; spiritual crafting; work meaning.

Abstract

Integrating interpersonal sensemaking theory and job crafting, this qualitative study examined responses from 8 workers (consist of three white-collar, two blue-collar and three no-collar workers), to delineate the dynamic process of work meaning, defined as employees' understandings of what they do at work as well as the significance of what they do. Results indicate that meaning of work is affected by interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Being devalued by others motivate individuals to proactively shaping a new meaning to get positive regards by doing job crafting. Job crafting helps individual to forming work meaning. This means that the meaning of work is not merely a privilege of high-prestige job. A low-prestige job can have a positive meaning by doing the crafting strategies. In contrast to previous research, the researchers found that 75% of participants doing spiritual crafting. The researchers defined it as individual proactive effort to view the task as part of God's plan or will. Spiritual crafting helps the individual to accept unpleasant situations in his work, and sees the event positively. A person who has a belief that everything is part of God's plan or has a "special" purpose in his life, may experience less distress when facing barriers in the workplace. Through spiritual crafting, the individual transforms the meaning of work as the field of worship for God.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Missiliana Riasnugrahani
AU  - Corina D Riantoputra
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Spiritual Crafting: Another Strategy to Transform the Meaning of Work
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 435
EP  - 447
SN  - 2352-5428
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