Feeling Ostracized And Powerless: The Moderating Role Of Job Crafting

초록

Ostracism is a negative social event that diminishes employees’ sense of power. Drawing on power dependence theory, this study investigates how employees’ prior engagement in crafting either social or structural job resources differentially moderates this relationship. We hypothesize that employees who previously increased social resources experience a weaker negative impact of ostracism on power, whereas those who increased structural resources experience a stronger effect. An experiment study supported these hypotheses. This research advances the ostracism, job crafting, and power literatures by showing how pre-ostracism job crafting behaviors can either mitigate or exacerbate ostracism’s negative effects on sense of power.

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