"A guide for managers to make their organizations more conducive to job crafting by employees"--

Benjamin Laker is a former government adviser turned scholar who is currently serving as Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and Visiting Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London.
Lebene Richmond Soga is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management Practice at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University; a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a multi-award-winning academic. His research interests include technology-mediated practices, entrepreneurship ecosystems and leadership. He publishes in high-ranking academic journals and has delivered his insights to government agencies as well as managers at a Fortune-200 organization. His research is featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Forbes, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Global, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, among others. 
Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun is Associate Professor in Organisational Behaviour at the Global Business School for Health, University College London, as well as a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Her research interests take a cultural perspective of organizations and focus on contexts of diversity and change, exploring interactions in values and meaning systems, social aspects of work, as well as effects of cultural incongruence on the experience of work. Her work has been published in leading journals such as Organizational Research Methods, Journal of Business Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Harvard Business Review. She also frequently contributes to published volumes with major publishing houses such as Emerald Publishing and Edward Elgar Publishing.
Adeyinka Adewale is Associate Professor of Leadership Ethics and Entrepreneurship and Director of Studies in the department of Leadership Organisations and Behaviour at the Henley Business School. He is an award-winning researcher, keynote speaker, and global leadership development consultant whose body of work continues to impact organizations, societies, and nations around the world. He is published in both academic and practitioner outlets on themes around Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Ethics. Adeyinka is a member of global think-tanks and continues to serve on the board of exciting start-ups and charities. He has a strong passion to leverage his research and knowledge for building the people that will build enterprises that will change the world for better.

Series Foreword vii
Preface: Why This Book? ix
1 Why Job Crafting? 1
2 Cognitive Crafting, Task Crafting, and Relational Crafting 17
3 Readiness for Job Crafting 35
4 Permission to Craft 53
5 Creating a Safe Climate for Job Crafting 71
6 Tools for Job Crafting 81
7 Capacity to Job Craft 101
8 Conclusion 111
Notes 125
Index 139