The Job Crafting Exercise is a self-development tool that helps you
identify opportunities to make your job more engaging and fulfilling.
To do this, the exercise encourages you to view your job in a new way
- as a flexible set of building blocks rather than a fixed list of
duties. With this perspective, you use colorful stickers to create a
visual plan for redesigning your job to better fit your motives,
strengths, and passions. You can use the exercise on your own, or administer it to others in workshops, one-on-one coaching, or classroom teaching
After you do the Job Crafting Exercise or administer it to others, please help us develop knowledge around this tool by filling out a
brief online survey.
"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
"I turned down a job offer this week because the exercise opened my
eyes that the things I dislike about my current job are things that I
can change - through job crafting - to where I'll enjoy my job again."
-Administrative Assistant
"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
Center for
Positive Organizational Scholarship • Stephen M. Ross School of Business
• University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street • Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234 • Phone:
734-647-8154 • Fax: 734-936-6631
Email:
positiveorg@umich.edu
• Projects Coordinator:
Janet Max