A Systematic Review of Job Crafting, Job Characteristics, Work Engagement, and Exhaustion of Female Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This research has attempted to identify the impact of daily job crafting of female nurses on their daily job performance consisting of task performance, counterproductive work behavior, and altruism during a COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. The present study has hypothesized that the daily job crafting of female nurses is related to daily job resources (autonomy and work pressure) and job demands which subsequently related to daily exhaustion and work engagement and eventually related to female nurses' job performance. A sample of 171 nurses working in private hospitals in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, provided their input on five consecutive working days (855 Occasions) in a quantitative diary method. Due to an increase in daily work engagement and autonomy, daily seeking resources for female nurses have a positive and significant relationship with daily task performance. Moreover, daily reducing demands was found to have a significant impact on daily task performance and altruism of female nurses because this reduces their daily workload which further reduces their engagement and exhaustion. The study examined that job crafting by female nurses could have both positive and negative effects on job performance during the COVID-19 pandemic.