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Ghazzawi, Rawan; Bender, Michael, He, Jia, Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Van der Heijden, Beatrice I.J.M. (2025)

Examining the interplay between job crafting and job satisfaction: A cross-cultural investigation

International Journal of Cross Cultural Management Doi:

The positive relationship between job crafting and positive work outcomes, often mediated by individual basic needs, is well-supported; however, little is known about whether these relationships, specifically the mediation, hold across cultures. We investigated the relationship between job crafting and job satisfaction among nurses from diverse cultural contexts, as well as the potential mediating role of basic need satisfaction. We conducted a cross-cultural comparative study among nurses in hospital settings across three distinct cultural contexts: Lebanon, India, and the USA. We tested (a) whether the scales employed were psychometrically invariant via MGCFA and (b) conducted multi-group SEM to test the relationship between job crafting, need satisfaction, and job satisfaction across the three cultural samples. Only two of the four job crafting dimensions (increasing social job resources and increasing challenging job demands) and one of the three basic need satisfaction dimensions (need for autonomy) reached metric invariance. Hypotheses were tested for the metrically invariant scales: While job crafting was related to job satisfaction in the Lebanese and USA samples, no such relationship was found in the Indian sample. Only in the Lebanese and USA samples, increasing challenging job demands was related to job satisfaction, through the satisfaction of the need for autonomy. Increasing social job resources was related to job satisfaction only in the Lebanese sample. We recommend testing the psychometric appropriateness of measures before employing them and discuss what this means for job crafting research directions and practical implications.

Daouk-Öyry, Lina; Afiouni, Fida, Ghazzawi, Rawan & Alhaffar, Huda (2025)

The Role of HRM in Building Resilience: The Relationality Imperative in Times of War

Human Resource Management Journal Doi:

The increase in natural and manmade disasters around the world in which organizations need to operate has brought the concept of organizational resilience to the forefront. To understand the role that HRM can play in fostering resilience in extreme contexts, we adopt a resource-based lens through the conservation of resources theory, to explore how organizations protected, gained, and retained employees as their most valuable resources in the face of the extreme context of war. Specifically, we investigated the underlying mechanisms that allowed organizations operating in the extreme context of the Syrian civil war, to increase their and their employees' resilience through their HR departments. Using a qualitative interpretive approach based on the narratives of HR managers and employees working in Syria during the civil war, we explore the role of HRM in building individual and organizational resilience. Our findings point to two mechanisms that HR departments relied on to protect resources and acquire new ones. First, HR departments adopted relationality practices, enacted by their managers, focused on investing in employees' psychological capital and wellbeing. Second, HR departments leveraged technology for recruitment and training purposes to attract and develop employees. Additionally, the extreme context characterized by scarce resources may have triggered the “strategification” of HR departments and transformed them, into strategic partners playing a critical role in their respective organizations' survival. We contribute to the literature on organizational resilience by highlighting the important relational role HRM can play to foster individual and subsequently organizational resilience.

Karam, Charlotte; DeJordy, Rich, Creed, Douglas, Daouk-Öyry, Lina, Scott, Shawn, Geha, Carmen & Daou, Alain (2024)

Resourcing Agency for Sustained Collective Action Amid Creeping Crises

Organization Studies, s. 1- 28. Doi: -

Ghazzawi, Rawan; Chasiotis, Athanasios, Bender, Michael, Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Baumann, Nicola (2024)

Up for the challenge: Power motive congruence drives nurses to craft their jobs and experience well-being

PLOS ONE, 19(10) Doi: -

Job crafting is the behavior that employees engage in to create personally better fitting work environments, for example, by increasing challenging job demands. To better understand the driving forces behind employees’ engagement in job crafting, we investigated implicit and explicit power motives. While implicit motives tend to operate at the unconscious, explicit motives operate at the unconscious level. We focused on power motives, as power is an agentic motive characterized by the need to influence your environment. Although power is relevant to job crafting in its entirety, in this study, we link it to increasing challenging job demands due to its relevance to job control, which falls under the umbrella of power. Using a cross-sectional design, we collected survey data from a sample of Lebanese nurses (N = 360) working in 18 different hospitals across the country. In both implicit and explicit power motive measures, we focused on integrative power that enable people to stay calm and integrate opposition. The results showed that explicit power predicted job crafting (H1) and that implicit power amplified this effect (H2). Furthermore, job crafting mediated the relationship between congruently high power motives and positive work-related outcomes (H3) that were interrelated (H4). Our findings unravel the driving forces behind one of the most important dimensions of job crafting and extend the benefits of motive congruence to work-related outcomes.

Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2023)

Call of duty: When scholars organize in extreme contexts

Organization Studies, 44(2), s. 337- 340. Doi: -

Ly, Annelise & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2025)

Hva kan jeg gjøre for å øke mangfoldet blant de ansatte?

Dysvik, Anders; Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Kristensen, Mats (red.). Lederoppskrifter: Ledelse i praksis

Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Ly, Annelise (2025)

Hvordan kan jeg bidra til en økt følelse av inkludering i et flerkulturelt arbeidsmiljø?

Dysvik, Anders; Martinsen, Øyvind L. & Kristensen, Mats (red.). Lederoppskrifter: Ledelse i praksis

Meouchy, Axelle; Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Kroon, Brigitte (2025)

Beyond The Void: Examining Equality Discourse in The Middle East and North Africa Region

[Academic lecture]. EGOS.

Meouchy, Axelle; Daouk-Öyry, Lina & Kroon, Brigitte (2025)

Beyond The Void: Examining Equality Discourse in The Middle East and North Africa Region

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Conference.

DeJordy, Rich & Daouk-Öyry, Lina (2025)

Participatory Action Research: Insider Social Change (Double) Agents

[Academic lecture]. Academy of Management Conference.