AUTHOR=Liu Taotao , Wang Wei , Shan Geyan , Zhang Yijie , Liu Jie , Li Yongxin 

TITLE=Job Crafting and Nurses' Presenteeism: The Effects of Job Embeddedness and Job Irreplaceability

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.930083

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.930083

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Background: Presenteeism is defined as the behavior of people who insist on attending work despite complaints of ill health that should prompt rest and absence from work. Due to the heavy workloads and irreplaceable duties of the nursing service, nurses are a typical representative group that suffer from presenteeism. Although more scholars have recently began focusing on presenteeism, an abundant number of studies have tended to focus on presenteeism’s external objective factors. There is, thus, a lack of studies based on variables related to intra-individual initiative. This study aimed to address this gap by exploring the relationship between job crafting and nurses’ presenteeism from the perspective of individual internal initiative. Furthermore, this study also aimed to examine job embeddedness’ mediating effect and job irreplaceability’s moderating effect on presenteeism. 
Methods: 900 nurses from a 3A-graded hospital in Henan Province were invited to participated in the online study in October, November, and December 2021, respectively. Participants were asked to complete self-report scales on job crafting, job embeddedness, job irreplaceability, and presenteeism at three time points above. Job crafting was measured at Time 1, job embeddedness and job irreplaceability were measured at Time 2, and presenteeism was measured at Time 3. 
Results: Presenteeism was significantly associated with differences in participants’ age and tenure. Job crafting was significantly positively associated with job embeddedness, and job embeddedness was significantly negatively correlated with presenteeism. Job embeddedness mediated the relationship between job crafting and presenteeism. Job irreplaceability moderated the relationship between job embeddedness and presenteeism. 
Conclusions: This study explored job crafting’s influence mechanism on nurses’ presenteeism, which is beneficial to providing effective suggestions for managing and preventing the incidence of nurses’ presenteeism. Future research should consider expanding the sampling area and enriching the occupational fields of included participants to conduct a more in-depth discussion on the relationship between job crafting and nurses’ presenteeism.