Crafting Playbook
research areas
timeframe
2021 - present
contact
georg.bauer@uzh.ch
Digital Crafting Platform
The «Crafting Playbook» is a digital space where individuals can reflect on their work situation and well-being.
It offers both research opportunities as well as practical uses for single persons – and in future also for teams and organisations.
Background
The Crafting Playbook is an open-source app that uses short “plays” to encourage users to think about their work activities and relationships in the workplace and to shape them in a targeted manner (i.e., to “craft” them). It is based on extensive research on job crafting, defined as pro-active strategies to change the characteristics of one’s job to better align it with personal needs, goals, and skills.
Goals
The playbook aims to empower employees to pro-actively reflect and craft their own jobs. As an App, it has the potential for a wide adoption and use by this target group. Besides the end-user app, an open-source tool is available for other researchers and practitioners guiding them in developing own crafting plays.
Method
The Crafting Circle with representatives from Zurich’s universities (UZH, PHZ, ZHAW, ZHdK) has developed an initial series of plays: on dealing with stress, on resources and pressures at work, on contributing personal strengths and values, as well as on mutual understanding within the team and showing appreciation. New plays are continuously being developed as part of further projects.