In the current paper, we focus on job crafting seen from the perspective of colleagues. Guided by Social Information Processing theory, we examine how observing a colleague's job crafting may trigger an observer's reactions, and how these reactions relate to the work enjoyment of the job crafter and the colleague as an indicator of the effectiveness of job crafting. In Study 1, using a vignette experiment with an employee sample (N = 97), we found that those observing a fictitious colleague engaging in avoidance crafting reported a decrease in their willingness to cooperate with the job crafter and an increase in expected relationship conflict, while the opposite was found when they observed approach crafting. In Study 2, using a dyadic field study consisting of 136 employee dyads, we replicated the findings of Study 1 and extended the model by showing that the willingness to cooperate and experienced relationship conflict with the job crafter, in turn, related to the work enjoyment of both the colleague and the job crafter. Together, these studies show the importance of colleague reactions to job crafting behaviors observed among each other.

在当前的论文中，我们专注于从同事的角度看待工作塑造。在社会信息处理理论的指导下，我们研究了观察同事的工作塑造如何引发观察者的反应，以及这些反应如何与工作塑造者和同事的工作享受相关，作为工作塑造有效性的指标。在研究 1 中，使用员工样本（N = 97），我们发现那些观察虚构同事进行回避制作的人报告说，他们与工作制作者合作的意愿降低，预期的关系冲突增加，而当他们观察到方法制作时发现相反。在研究 2 中，使用由 136 名员工组成的二元实地研究，我们复制了研究 1 的结果并扩展了模型，表明合作意愿和与工作制定者的关系冲突反过来又与工作享受有关同事和工作工匠。总之，这些研究表明了同事对彼此观察到的工作塑造行为的反应的重要性。