Abstract
Background Recent challenges in the working world that resulted from the pandemic and technological advances
have underlined the importance of fexibility in how jobs are designed. Job crafting (JC) refers to self-initiated changes
that employees introduce to their jobs to optimize their job design and increase the ft between the job and their
needs and preferences. These behaviors can be stimulated by job crafting training interventions, which aim to change
how individual employees design, organize, or manage their work. However, since the interventions are implemented
in various ways, we do not know which context and intervention factors are necessary or sufcient to achieve desired
outcomes. Without this knowledge, beneftting from the potential of job crafting interventions is limited. The overall aim of this project will be to investigate what combinations of context, intervention, and mechanism factors are
linked with efective JC interventions. Specifcally, we will detect what factors are minimally sufcient and/or necessary to produce a successful JC intervention, how they combine, as well as what are the multiple alternative paths to
their success.
Methods We will perform a systematic review of the JC interventions literature combined with coincidence analysis
(CNA). We will search electronic databases of journals and utilize Rayyan software to make decisions regarding inclusion. Data regarding context (e.g., ft), intervention (e.g., types of activities), mechanisms (e.g., intention implementation), and outcomes (e.g., employee well-being, job performance) will be extracted using a pre-piloted form and
coded into a crisp-set (factor present vs. absent). Analyses will be carried out using the CNA package in R.
Discussion This review will address gaps in knowledge about the context, intervention, and mechanism-related
factors that may impact the efects of JC interventions. Consequently, this review will help develop a program theory
for JC interventions that explains what works, how and under which circumstances. Applying CNA to synthesize these
complex solutions across multiple studies provides an innovative method that may be used in future review attempts
evaluating the implementation of interventions. Finally, our synthesis will provide knowledge relevant to organizational practitioners and scholars who want to implement JC interventions.