Resource crafting: Is it really ‘resource’ crafting—or just crafting?

This study aims to provide an integrated perspective on job craftingand its antecedents through the exploration of the joint effects of individual-level and team-level job craftingon employee work engagement. Drawing on conservation of resources (COR) theory, we propose that engaging in job craftingbehaviors is promoted by the presence of job-related resources. In turn, job craftingis expected to result in higher levels of work engagement. We expect this reasoning to hold for the individualas well as the team/collective levels. The hypotheses were tested using data from 287 medical professionals from 21 hospital units of a Chinese public hospital. Findings from two-level Bayesian structural equation modeling supported the idea that at the individuallevel, individualjob craftingbehaviors partially mediated the relationship from individualresources to individual work engagement. Further, collective craftingmediated the relationship from team resources to individual work engagement. In addition, a positive cross-level relation between collective craftingand individual craftingwas found. We conclude that stimulated by resources, both job craftingprocesses at the individual-level and team-level can promote individual work engagementin Chinese employees.