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Job Crafting Exercise

The Job Crafting Exercise is a self-development tool that helps people identify opportunities to make positive changes to their own job designs by encouraging them to view their jobs in a new way - as a flexible set of building blocks rather than a fixed list of duties. Using this perspective, each participant puts together a visual plan for redesigning his or her job to be more engaging and fulfilling.

Preview the Job Crafting Exercise (824 KB PDF).

Purchase the Job Crafting Exercise.

Please note: The Job Crafting Exercise is available in a printed version only - because of its unique format, purchase of a PDF for download is not possible.

A teaching note is available at no cost to instructors who order the Job Crafting Exercise. To get the teaching note, please contact Janet Max at (734) 647-8154 or jmax@bus.umich.edu.

Testimonials:

“A very short exercise that reveals a truckload of information and insight. It helped me believe that I’ll be able to start liking and enjoying my job.”
-Project Manager

“Enlightening . . . made me realize what I liked about my job and what I didn't in a clearer way than I thought possible.”
-Benefits Analyst

“Forced me to look at my job in a different way – enabled me to see positive aspects I had not seen before. It's interesting to see what you come up with when you're asked questions you aren't usually asked.”
-Account Executive

“The way it aligned my strengths, motives, and passions with my day-to-day tasks was a great learning exercise. It helped clarify some of these connections and how we can leverage our strengths to achieve our motives.”
-Systems Development Engineer

"Matters for what I'll do tomorrow, not ten years and two jobs later."
-Marketing Analyst

The Job Crafting Suite of Products
In addition to the Job Crafting Exercise, we offer:
Crafting a Fulfilling Job: Bringing Passion Into Work (teaching case)
Job Crafting at Burt's Bees (teaching case)
What is Job Crafting and Why Does It Matter? (theory-to-practice briefing)