Approach or Avoidance: How Does Employees’ Generative AI Awareness Shape Their Job Crafting Behavior? A Sensemaking Perspective

We engaged 315 participants from Credamo platform, a well-established and reliable source for large-scale data collection. We gathered survey data across three distinct time points, each separated by a two-week interval. During the first time point, we invited 600 participants to provide information on their gender, age, education level, and the frequency of using Gen AI. Additionally, we asked them to provide ratings on their individual regulatory focus, AI awareness and perceived CSR. We obtained 590 responses, which corresponds to a high response rate of 98%. During the second time point, we invited the 590 participants who responded at Time 1 to rate on their work passion. We received 540 responses, resulting in a response rate of 90%. At Time 3, we invited the 540 respondents to complete the final assessment, in which they rated their job crafting behaviors. In all, 316 participants returned their responses, yielding a response rate of 88%.