Job Crafting and the Metaconversation.

In this paper, two different concepts regarding the relation between organization members and their working environment are examined. The first concept is job crafting (Wrzesniewski & Dutton, 2001; Wrzesniewski, Dutton & Debebe, 2003), and represents a paradigm shift in management theory from a passive attitude-bearing worker to an (en)active worker who, through reflection and interaction, crafts the images of his or her job, role and self in organizational contexts. The second concept is metaconversation (Robichaud, Giroux & Taylor, 2004), which unveils how the image of an organization emerges through the recursive nature of language. We will compare the concepts of job crafting and metaconversation to show parallels between the concepts, and explore ways in which the two different perspectives on these sensemaking processes can take advantage of the efforts and tools that are used in the study of the other perspective. ..PAT.-Conference Proceeding [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]