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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,558 Views
17 Pages

14 July 2024

Previous studies have mainly focused on the detrimental effects of illegitimate tasks as ubiquitous workplace stressors while ignoring the appraisal measures for such tasks. The term “illegitimate” is used by employees to describe the ali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,122 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2024

Cyberloafing as a production deviance behavior raises organizational concerns. Unfortunately, it is unknown how to minimize cyberloafing from a bottom-up perspective, particularly different types of cyberloafing. This study draws on the job crafting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,671 Views
12 Pages

24 May 2024

Little is known about the predictive role of advice networks in task crafting despite the growing academic and practical interest in its antecedents. Accordingly, as centrality in advice networks is expected to have a positive relationship with task...

  • Article
  • Open Access
695 Views
22 Pages

Working Smarter with AI in Hotel Industry: How Awareness Fuels Eustress, Task Crafting, and Adaptation

  • Ahmed Mohamed Hasanein,
  • Hazem Ahmed Khairy,
  • Bassam Samir Al-Romeedy and
  • Abbas N. Albarq

21 January 2026

The purpose of this study is to examine how employees’ artificial intelligence awareness (AIA) influences adaptive performance in the workplace through the mediating roles of eustress and task crafting within the Job Demands–Resources (JD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,995 Views
11 Pages

27 November 2022

In increasingly ambiguous work contexts, advice-seeking and task crafting behaviors are becoming more significant than ever before. Drawing on the uncertainty reduction theory, this study examined how role ambiguity would affect advice-seeking and ta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,577 Views
9 Pages

3 December 2019

Job crafting refers to physical and cognitive changes in task or relational work boundaries, enacted by individuals to recreate their work experience in a more motivating and rewarding way, and to realize self-actualization, growth, and meaning at wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
931 Views
18 Pages

15 May 2025

Considering that the impacts of task crafting on task performance are not uniform and may depend on goal congruence, this study attempted to explore the roles of affective commitment in individual–organizational goal congruence and strategic al...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,659 Views
16 Pages

As an emerging Chinese indigenous leadership style, paradoxical leadership has received considerable attention from researchers. Many studies have demonstrated the positive impact of paradoxical leadership on employees, teams, and organizations; howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,861 Views
8 Pages

Creating Positive Work Experiences Through Task Self-Redesign

  • Severin Hornung,
  • Thomas Höge,
  • Christian Seubert,
  • Jürgen Glaser and
  • Denise M. Rousseau

5 December 2019

Complementing the traditional focus in work design on “top-down” organizational interventions, research into proactive work behavior suggests that “bottom-up” processes, based on the “micro-emancipatory” actions em...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,705 Views
13 Pages

In recent years, changing working conditions have placed high demands on employees, resulting in increased work intensity, which may affect employees’ health and performance. Based on job and personal resources, individual behaviors help to cop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,112 Views
11 Pages

Job crafting is considered a specific form of proactive behavior whereby workers actively change the actual or perceived characteristics of their jobs in order to better match the demands placed on them and the resources available. As nursing could b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,554 Views
20 Pages

This study examined the effect of the fit between personality (i.e., openness to experience) and core job characteristics (i.e., skill variety, task significance, and task identity) on job crafting. We collected survey data from 200 college students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,248 Views
14 Pages

17 April 2020

In order to better understand the social aspects of job crafting, this study explores the direct and interactive effects of leader–member exchange (LMX) and team-member exchange (TMX) on three types of job crafting (i.e., task, relational, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,579 Views
24 Pages

19 November 2023

The aim of this research was to identify individualization areas in which employees (generations Y and Z) have the freedom to make changes. The study required an analysis of factors that might affect the balance between professional and personal life...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,440 Views
9 Pages

Nurses are key professionals in healthcare sectors, whose job attitude is closely associated with patient health outcomes and safety. Job crafting describes how workers shape their tasks to find a sense of meaning and value in their work. This study...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,476 Views
16 Pages

12 October 2019

The aim of this study was to compare the performance of two semi-trained panels with different degrees of self-reported beer involvement in terms of beer consumption pattern. The two panels were beer non-drinkers (indicating willingness to taste beer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,192 Views
23 Pages

Work Engagement, Job Crafting, and Their Effects on Green Work Outcomes

  • Ksenia Gurcham,
  • Osman M. Karatepe,
  • Elisa Rescalvo-Martin and
  • Turgay Avci

12 November 2025

The present study examines the effect of work engagement (WENG) on task-related pro-environmental behavior (TPEB) and green creativity, with job crafting as a mediator. Based on data collected from 187 customer-contact hotel and restaurant employees...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,650 Views
15 Pages

How and When Are Job Crafters Engaged at Work?

  • Inyong Shin,
  • Won-Moo Hur and
  • Seongho Kang

The importance of work engagement and the lack of engaged employees have led researchers to focus on how to enhance employees’ levels of engagement in the workplace. Although job crafting as a principal driver of work engagement has recently re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,934 Views
28 Pages

28 April 2023

Various contemporary studies have revealed a heightened need for the implementation of effective strategies to reduce labor shortages in the construction industry. The subsequent investigation outcomes have identified multiskilling labor strategies a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,116 Views
18 Pages

Job Crafting and Job Performance: The Mediating Effect of Engagement

  • Ana Moreira,
  • Tiago Encarnação,
  • João Viseu and
  • Maria José Sousa

11 November 2022

The main purpose of this study was to investigate whether work engagement mediates the relationship between job crafting and job performance. To this end, the following hypotheses were formulated: (1) job crafting establishes a positive and significa...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
77 Citations
11,102 Views
22 Pages

Worker 4.0: The Future of Sensored Construction Sites

  • Diego Calvetti,
  • Pedro Mêda,
  • Miguel Chichorro Gonçalves and
  • Hipólito Sousa

23 September 2020

The digitalization of the construction industry (CI) has the aim—among others—to raise the bar of overall productivity. The craft workforce is very relevant on the overall value-chain. Therefore, a boost in this dimension impacts the enti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,453 Views
11 Pages

11 January 2019

Labor Union activity still lacks recognition as an ordinary work activity. However, on the one hand, labor union representatives must deal with many tasks (internal and external) that can sometimes be overwhelming. On the other hand, given its vocati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,033 Views
15 Pages

13 November 2024

Background: This article introduces SC-Phi2, a fine-tuned StarCraft II small language model. Small language models, like Phi2, Gemma, and DistilBERT, are streamlined versions of large language models (LLMs) with fewer parameters that require less com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,835 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2023

In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment (VUCA), employees can better match the organization and jobs by crafting their job perceptions, work tasks, and relationships, which is valuable to maintain organizational sustainable com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,568 Views
15 Pages

Managers’ Open Innovation and Business Performance in SMEs: A Moderated Mediation Model of Job Crafting and Gender

  • Fouzia Hadi Ali,
  • Muhammad Ali,
  • Sania Zahra Malik,
  • Muhammad Ali Hamza and
  • Hafiz Fawad Ali

There is growing acceptability in redesigning jobs to achieve goals and objectives nowadays. Employees who indulge in exploiting and exploring opportunities for the business tend to craft their jobs, which can help to enhance business performance. Th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,913 Views
14 Pages

21 August 2023

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown decent performance in a variety of computer vision tasks. However, these network configurations are largely hand-crafted, which leads to inefficiency in the constructed network. Various other algorithms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,091 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Student Music Performances Using Deep Neural Networks

  • Kumar Ashis Pati,
  • Siddharth Gururani and
  • Alexander Lerch

27 March 2018

Music performance assessment is a highly subjective task often relying on experts to gauge both the technical and aesthetic aspects of the performance from the audio signal. This article explores the task of building computational models for music pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
8,508 Views
15 Pages

Deep Visual Attributes vs. Hand-Crafted Audio Features on Multidomain Speech Emotion Recognition

  • Michalis Papakostas,
  • Evaggelos Spyrou,
  • Theodoros Giannakopoulos,
  • Giorgos Siantikos,
  • Dimitrios Sgouropoulos,
  • Phivos Mylonas and
  • Fillia Makedon

Emotion recognition from speech may play a crucial role in many applications related to human–computer interaction or understanding the affective state of users in certain tasks, where other modalities such as video or physiological parameters are un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
335 Views
15 Pages

14 January 2026

Empowering leadership can provide more resource support for organizations and better match the characteristics of current knowledge employees, such as a high demand for autonomy and pursuit of value diversification. However, existing literature has n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,628 Views
16 Pages

(1) Background: Both employees and organizations benefit from a work environment characterized by work engagement and job satisfaction. This study examines the influence of work-group social capital on individuals’ work engagement, job satisfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,224 Views
18 Pages

Do Team Boundary-Spanning Activities Affect Innovation Performance?

  • Hongkun Zhang,
  • Xin Tan,
  • Chuanhao Liu and
  • Ming Chen

5 July 2023

In order to reveal the impact of boundary-spanning activities of cooperative innovation teams on team innovation performance, this paper takes the panel data of 71 cooperative innovation teams from January to November 2022 as the research sample. It...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,491 Views
23 Pages

25 January 2023

This research focused on the effect of employee competences on job crafting in a mature organization, but the levels of self-organization, job satisfaction and job redesign were also investigated. In order to assess the relationship between variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,823 Views
45 Pages

Evaluation of Hand-Crafted Feature Extraction for Fault Diagnosis in Rotating Machinery: A Survey

  • René-Vinicio Sánchez,
  • Jean Carlo Macancela,
  • Luis-Renato Ortega,
  • Diego Cabrera,
  • Fausto Pedro García Márquez and
  • Mariela Cerrada

21 August 2024

This article presents a comprehensive collection of formulas and calculations for hand-crafted feature extraction of condition monitoring signals. The documented features include 123 for the time domain and 46 for the frequency domain. Furthermore, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,335 Views
17 Pages

MixedSCNet: LiDAR-Based Place Recognition Using Multi-Channel Scan Context Neural Network

  • Yan Si,
  • Wenyi Han,
  • Die Yu,
  • Baizhong Bao,
  • Jian Duan,
  • Xiaobin Zhan and
  • Tielin Shi

In the realm of LiDAR-based place recognition tasks, three predominant methodologies have emerged: manually crafted feature descriptor-based methods, deep learning-based methods, and hybrid methods that combine the former two. Manually crafted featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,298 Views
31 Pages

18 January 2025

This study examines the impact of ESG strategies on sustainable performance in multinational enterprises (MNEs), with a particular focus on the mediating role of internal market-oriented culture (IMOC) and the moderating effect of job crafting. To va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,034 Views
29 Pages

Media Forensics Considerations on DeepFake Detection with Hand-Crafted Features

  • Dennis Siegel,
  • Christian Kraetzer,
  • Stefan Seidlitz and
  • Jana Dittmann

DeepFake detection is a novel task for media forensics and is currently receiving a lot of research attention due to the threat these targeted video manipulations propose to the trust placed in video footage. The current trend in DeepFake detection i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,761 Views
33 Pages

Variational Information Bottleneck for Semi-Supervised Classification

  • Slava Voloshynovskiy,
  • Olga Taran,
  • Mouad Kondah,
  • Taras Holotyak and
  • Danilo Rezende

27 August 2020

In this paper, we consider an information bottleneck (IB) framework for semi-supervised classification with several families of priors on latent space representation. We apply a variational decomposition of mutual information terms of IB. Using this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,373 Views
18 Pages

30 March 2020

In the past decade, time series data have been generated from various fields at a rapid speed, which offers a huge opportunity for mining valuable knowledge. As a typical task of time series mining, Time Series Classification (TSC) has attracted lots...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,796 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Task Network Based on Dual-Neck Structure for Autonomous Driving Perception

  • Guopeng Tan,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Zhihua Li,
  • Yuanbiao Zhang and
  • Ruikai Li

28 February 2024

A vision-based autonomous driving perception system necessitates the accomplishment of a suite of tasks, including vehicle detection, drivable area segmentation, and lane line segmentation. In light of the limited computational resources available, m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,282 Views
13 Pages

14 October 2021

Despite deep neural networks (DNNs) having achieved impressive performance in various domains, it has been revealed that DNNs are vulnerable in the face of adversarial examples, which are maliciously crafted by adding human-imperceptible perturbation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,553 Views
20 Pages

A Multitask-Based Transfer Framework for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  • Cheng Hu,
  • Chenxu Wang,
  • Weijun Luo,
  • Chaowen Yang,
  • Liuyu Xiang and
  • Zhaofeng He

19 February 2025

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has proven to be effective and promising in team collaboration tasks. Knowledge transfer in MARL has also received increasing attention. Compared to knowledge transfer in single-agent tasks, knowledge transfe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,952 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2024

The allure of team scale and functional diversity has led to the promising adoption of heterogeneous multi-robot systems (HMRS) in complex, large-scale operations such as disaster search and rescue, site surveillance, and social security. These syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,607 Views
9 Pages

Current changes in social structures and political-economic systems directly affect teachers’ job performance. Among others, these changes include changes in communication and information technologies, the scientific revolution, changes in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,423 Views
21 Pages

Using ClassCraft to Improve Primary School Students’ Knowledge and Interest in Sustainable Mobility

  • Silvia Sipone,
  • Víctor Abella-García,
  • Marta Rojo and
  • Luigi dell’Olio

4 September 2021

Teaching students awareness about sustainable mobility has been lacking to date. There is a need to expand the themes being addressed in order to achieve a change in attitude. Society needs to design a curriculum that teaches about sustainable mobili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,067 Views
12 Pages

Person Re-Identification by Low-Dimensional Features and Metric Learning

  • Xingyuan Chen,
  • Huahu Xu,
  • Yang Li and
  • Minjie Bian

18 November 2021

Person re-identification (Re-ID) has attracted attention due to its wide range of applications. Most recent studies have focused on the extraction of deep features, while ignoring color features that can remain stable, even for illumination variation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,201 Views
10 Pages

Considered the world’s largest industry, manufacturing transforms billions of raw materials into useful products. Like all real processes and systems, manufacturing processes and equipment are subject to the first and second laws of thermodynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,352 Views
10 Pages

20 March 2022

Benefiting from the rapid development of computer hardware and big data, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in commercial speaker recognition systems, achieving a kind of symmetry between “machine-learning-as-a-service”...

  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
18 Pages

KT-NAS: Knowledge Transfer for Efficient Neural Architecture Search

  • Linh-Tam Tran,
  • A. F. M. Shahab Uddin,
  • Younho Jang and
  • Sung-Ho Bae

7 January 2026

Pre-trained models have played important roles in many tasks, such as domain adaptation and out-of-distribution generalization, by transferring matured knowledge. In this paper, we study Neural Architecture Search (NAS) in the feature space level and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
818 Views
20 Pages

20 August 2025

In the domain of multi-agent reinforcement learning, conventional algorithms such as VDN, QMIX, and QTRAN have exhibited favorable performance in static task scenarios. However, these algorithms encounter challenges due to their limited capacity to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,736 Views
18 Pages

Data Augmentation vs. Domain Adaptation—A Case Study in Human Activity Recognition

  • Evaggelos Spyrou,
  • Eirini Mathe,
  • Georgios Pikramenos,
  • Konstantinos Kechagias and
  • Phivos Mylonas

Recent advances in big data systems and databases have made it possible to gather raw unlabeled data at unprecedented rates. However, labeling such data constitutes a costly and timely process. This is especially true for video data, and in particula...

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