The Potential Importance of Social Capital and Job Crafting for Work Engagement and Job Satisfaction among Health-Care Employees

Jutengren, Göran,Docent,1965-Högskolan i Borås,Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd (författare)

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(1) Background: Both employees and organizations benefit from a work environment characterized by work engagement and job satisfaction. This study examines the influence of work-group social capital on individuals' work engagement, job satisfaction, and job crafting. In addition, the mediating effect of job crafting between social capital on the one side and job satisfaction and work engagement on the other side was analyzed. (2) Methods: This study used data from 250 health-care employees in Sweden who had completed a questionnaire at two time points (six to eight months apart). Analyses of separate cross-lagged panel designs were conducted using structural regression modeling with manifest variables. (3) Results: Social capital was predictive of both job satisfaction and work engagement over time. The results also indicated that higher degrees of social capital was predictive of more cognitive and relational, but not task-related job crafting over time. There was no clear evidence for a mediating effect of job crafting for social capital to work engagement or job satisfaction. (4) Conclusion: It would be beneficial for the health-care sector to consider setting up the organizations to promote social capital within work groups. Individual workers would gain in well-being and the organization is likely to gain in efficiency and lower turnover rates.

Jaldestad, EllenKTH,Ergonomi,Division of Ergonomics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden(Swepub:kth)u1oeutsr (författare)
Dellve, Lotta,1965Högskolan i Borås,Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för sociologi och arbetsvetenskap,Department of Sociology and Work Science,Univ Gothenburg, Dept Sociol & Work Sci, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden.,Akademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd,Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, SE-405 30 Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:hb)LODE (författare)
Eriksson, Andrea,1977-KTH,Ergonomi,Division of Ergonomics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-141 57 Huddinge, Sweden(Swepub:kth)u1hz0zb4 (författare)
Högskolan i BoråsAkademin för vård, arbetsliv och välfärd (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health: MDPI AG17:121660-46011661-7827

Av författaren/redakt...: Jutengren, Göran ...; Jaldestad, Ellen; Dellve, Lotta, 1 ...; Eriksson, Andrea ...

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