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How does organizational AI adoption affect employees’ job crafting behaviors? An approach-avoidance perspective
Originally published 2026-01-09 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1690238 ↗
AI / system type
Organizational AI adoption and approach/avoidance job crafting
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Organizational AI adoption and approach/avoidance job crafting. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings approach and avoidance motivation during AI-related job crafting into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers three-wave employee survey evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is approach and avoidance motivation during AI-related job crafting. Source setting or population: 487 valid responses from employees in five Chinese enterprises actively using AI. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Can I adapt my role to AI while keeping choices about the work I do?
This three-wave employee survey examines approach and avoidance motivation during AI-related job crafting. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
487 valid responses from employees in five Chinese enterprises actively using AI
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Can I adapt my role to AI while keeping choices about the work I do?
- What do this study’s design and population — 487 valid responses from employees in five Chinese enterprises actively using AI — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering approach and avoidance motivation during AI-related job crafting, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
The observed motivational pathways are not causal effects; respondents’ perceptions may differ across tasks, companies and local labor conditions.
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Qi Liu; Qing Tian; Xin Li; Hongjuan Tan (2026). How does organizational AI adoption affect employees’ job crafting behaviors? An approach-avoidance perspective Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1690238
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