UM: Job-Crafting

A Time magazine article looks at the concept of job-crafting, a process designed to make jobs “more meaningful by empowering employees to brainstorm and implement subtle but significant workplace adjustments.” The article quotes Jane Dutton, a UM business professor who helped develop this process and who says that local autoworkers have benefitted from it: “They come in looking worn down, but after spending two hours on this exercise, they come away thinking about three or four things they can do differently. They start to recognize they have more control over their work than they realized.” [Source]