抄録
Job crafting （JC） is a proactive action taken by employees to make their
work experience more meaningful. The concept behind it is the enhancement
of “private emotions” such as a private interest and/or pleasure in work；
however, JC for such private emotions has not been well studied. Private
emotions have sometimes been suppressed or eliminated as a non-commercial
or non-intellectual element in the workplace or in capitalist societies.
However, new work styles that transform private emotions into creative
energy are now attracting attention. Therefore, we focused on pro bono
work, which is a social contribution using job-related skills and we asked
the following research questions： “In the process of crossing boundaries
between commercial business （commodity exchange） and non-profitable
pro bono work （reciprocal exchange as gift/counter-gift）, what differences
in the relationship between the self and others are experienced? How does
meaningfulness and engagement with work change in the process?” We
propose the concept of emotional JC and discuss a future work style that is
an extension of neoliberal entrepreneurship, and alternative work styles in
post-capitalist societies.
