Abstract
Employees are becoming more responsive to the
demands placed upon them in the workplace.
Employees continuously seek ways to enhance their
work performance. Notably, employees may put
forward and negotiate certain work arrangements with
their employer referred to as idiosyncratic deals.
Employees may also alter the way in which they work,
referred to as job crafting. The study is qualitative in
nature and presents a conceptual paper. The paper
presents a research model of idiosyncratic deals, job
crafting and work related performance and sets out to
identify research propositions that can be tested
empirically. The study contributes to the literature of
idiosyncratic deals and job crafting, and fills in the gap
in the literature of these two variables by linking it to
work related performance. Furthermore, the study puts
forward propositions, which when tested empirically
have the potential to enhance the way in which
employees work, craft their work and increase
individual performance.