Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer
The Nordic model and organizational research highlight the benefits of employee participation and collaboration between management and employees. Using job crafting theory, this paper studied the roles safety representatives craft for themselves in organizational interventions, the mental models tha...
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| author | Eyvind Helland Marit Christensen Siw Tone Innstrand Anne Iversen Karina Nielsen |
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| description | The Nordic model and organizational research highlight the benefits of employee participation and collaboration between management and employees. Using job crafting theory, this paper studied the roles safety representatives craft for themselves in organizational interventions, the mental models that impact the roles they craft, and the possible consequences these roles have for intervention implementation. The research used a case study design to interview 15 safety representatives of 15 different departments at a university in Norway regarding their role in an organizational intervention. The thematic analysis identified five roles the safety representatives crafted for themselves: 1) Watchdogs safeguarding the work environment, 2) Watchdogs safeguarding the line managers’ implementation, 3) Counsellors to the line manager on how to implement the intervention activities, 4) Drivers who themselves implement the intervention activities, and 5) Abstainers who let the intervention occur without their involvement. The safety representatives’ mental models of their line manager, the work environment, their colleagues, and the intervention itself appeared to affect the roles they crafted. Finally, the different roles safety representatives crafted for themselves seemed to influence the intervention implementation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ab1a887f8fc4030906b96403823043c2023-04-17T07:42:12ZengStockholm University PressScandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology2002-28672021-09-01616610.16993/sjwop.137111Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or AbstainerEyvind Helland0Marit Christensen1Siw Tone Innstrand2Anne Iversen3Karina Nielsen4Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorwegian University of Science and TechnologySheffield University Management SchoolThe Nordic model and organizational research highlight the benefits of employee participation and collaboration between management and employees. Using job crafting theory, this paper studied the roles safety representatives craft for themselves in organizational interventions, the mental models that impact the roles they craft, and the possible consequences these roles have for intervention implementation. The research used a case study design to interview 15 safety representatives of 15 different departments at a university in Norway regarding their role in an organizational intervention. The thematic analysis identified five roles the safety representatives crafted for themselves: 1) Watchdogs safeguarding the work environment, 2) Watchdogs safeguarding the line managers’ implementation, 3) Counsellors to the line manager on how to implement the intervention activities, 4) Drivers who themselves implement the intervention activities, and 5) Abstainers who let the intervention occur without their involvement. The safety representatives’ mental models of their line manager, the work environment, their colleagues, and the intervention itself appeared to affect the roles they crafted. Finally, the different roles safety representatives crafted for themselves seemed to influence the intervention implementation.https://account.sjwop.com/index.php/su-j-sjwop/article/view/137contextjob craftingmental modelsorganizational interventionsafety representativequalitative analysis |
| spellingShingle | Eyvind Helland Marit Christensen Siw Tone Innstrand Anne Iversen Karina Nielsen Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology context job crafting mental models organizational intervention safety representative qualitative analysis |
| title | Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer |
| title_full | Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer |
| title_short | Safety Representatives’ Job Crafting in Organizational Interventions: Driver, Counselor, Watchdog, or Abstainer |
| title_sort | safety representatives job crafting in organizational interventions driver counselor watchdog or abstainer |
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