TY - JOUR

T1 - Putting job design in context: Introduction to the special issue

AU - Grant, Adam M.

AU - Fried, Y.

AU - Parker, Sharon K.

AU - Frese, Michael

PY - 2010/2/1

Y1 - 2010/2/1

N2 - This special issue introduces new crossdisciplinary, crosslevel, and cross-cultural perspectives on job design. The authors examine job design from the viewpoints of organizational behavior, sociology, economics, corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary psychology. They consider job design in the context of interpersonal interactions, teams, leadership, networks, occupations, organizational structures, national cultures, and institutional fields. They explore how employees take initiative to craft their jobs, negotiate idiosyncratic deals, and navigate entrepreneurial roles, corporate director roles, executive roles, and careers.

AB - This special issue introduces new crossdisciplinary, crosslevel, and cross-cultural perspectives on job design. The authors examine job design from the viewpoints of organizational behavior, sociology, economics, corporate strategy, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary psychology. They consider job design in the context of interpersonal interactions, teams, leadership, networks, occupations, organizational structures, national cultures, and institutional fields. They explore how employees take initiative to craft their jobs, negotiate idiosyncratic deals, and navigate entrepreneurial roles, corporate director roles, executive roles, and careers.

KW - Business psychology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=75849121889&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/job.679

DO - 10.1002/job.679

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 31

SP - 145

EP - 157

JO - Journal of Organizational Behavior

JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior

SN - 0894-3796

IS - 2-3

ER -