---
_id: '64561'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title>\r\n                  <jats:p>Employees
    in highly demanding, interdependent work environments face a dilemma: while avoidance‐focused
    job crafting can preserve their own well‐being, these self‐initiated changes to
    their jobs could negatively affect coworkers. Drawing on qualitative interviews
    with 81 employees concurrently working for multiple agile teams in a European
    automotive corporation, we explore how employees navigate this dilemma. Our findings
    reveal three primary job crafting strategies—eliminating tasks, reducing task
    investment, and scheduling tasks in uninterrupted time blocks—that decrease employees'
    emotional exhaustion yet burden coworkers and slow team processes. We identify
    two distinct pathways for navigating this dilemma: in self‐oriented job crafting,
    employees announce their strategies unilaterally and implement them despite coworkers'
    objections, shifting the burden of interdependence onto coworkers and fueling
    coworker frustration; in prosocial job crafting, they openly suggest crafting
    strategies, discuss them with coworkers, and adjust plans to balance self‐preservation
    with coworkers' needs, thus partially internalizing the burden of interdependence.
    Our study advances research on socially embedded job crafting by revealing contrasting
    ways to manage interdependence. It also extends job crafting research by showing
    when and why avoidance crafting can effectively mitigate high job demands and
    by illustrating how avoidance and approach crafting can blend within a single
    strategy.</jats:p>"
article_number: job.70072
author:
- first_name: Helene
  full_name: Tenzer, Helene
  last_name: Tenzer
- first_name: Martin
  full_name: Hoegl, Martin
  last_name: Hoegl
- first_name: Maria
  full_name: Tims, Maria
  last_name: Tims
- first_name: Philip
  full_name: Yang, Philip
  id: '100432'
  last_name: Yang
- first_name: Steffen
  full_name: Wütz, Steffen
  last_name: Wütz
citation:
  ama: 'Tenzer H, Hoegl M, Tims M, Yang P, Wütz S. I Can’t Split Myself in Two (or
    Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments.
    <i>Journal of Organizational Behavior</i>. Published online 2026. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">10.1002/job.70072</a>'
  apa: 'Tenzer, H., Hoegl, M., Tims, M., Yang, P., &#38; Wütz, S. (2026). I Can’t
    Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent
    Work Environments. <i>Journal of Organizational Behavior</i>, Article job. 70072.
    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Tenzer_Hoegl_Tims_Yang_Wütz_2026, title={I Can’t Split Myself
    in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments},
    DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">10.1002/job.70072</a>}, number={job.
    70072}, journal={Journal of Organizational Behavior}, publisher={Wiley}, author={Tenzer,
    Helene and Hoegl, Martin and Tims, Maria and Yang, Philip and Wütz, Steffen},
    year={2026} }'
  chicago: 'Tenzer, Helene, Martin Hoegl, Maria Tims, Philip Yang, and Steffen Wütz.
    “I Can’t Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent
    Work Environments.” <i>Journal of Organizational Behavior</i>, 2026. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072</a>.'
  ieee: 'H. Tenzer, M. Hoegl, M. Tims, P. Yang, and S. Wütz, “I Can’t Split Myself
    in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments,”
    <i>Journal of Organizational Behavior</i>, Art. no. job. 70072, 2026, doi: <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">10.1002/job.70072</a>.'
  mla: 'Tenzer, Helene, et al. “I Can’t Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting
    in Highly Demanding and Interdependent Work Environments.” <i>Journal of Organizational
    Behavior</i>, job. 70072, Wiley, 2026, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/job.70072">10.1002/job.70072</a>.'
  short: H. Tenzer, M. Hoegl, M. Tims, P. Yang, S. Wütz, Journal of Organizational
    Behavior (2026).
date_created: 2026-02-20T13:49:23Z
date_updated: 2026-02-20T13:55:15Z
doi: 10.1002/job.70072
language:
- iso: eng
publication: Journal of Organizational Behavior
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0894-3796
  - 1099-1379
publication_status: published
publisher: Wiley
status: public
title: 'I Can''t Split Myself in Two (or Five): Job Crafting in Highly Demanding and
  Interdependent Work Environments'
type: journal_article
user_id: '80877'
year: '2026'
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