{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/turn-the-current-role-into-a-skill-laboratory",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9025",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Turn the current role into a skill laboratory",
  "summary": "Career development can begin by changing a slice of the work, not only by adding study after work.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Identify a target capability and a current task where it can be exercised with legitimate scope. Add a bounded challenge, resource or responsibility, agree expectations where needed, and capture the resulting evidence. Use the job as a practice environment without quietly taking authority you do not have.",
  "limits": [
    "Job crafting is context-dependent. Workload, manager expectations, union rules, regulated duties and team fairness can limit what should be changed."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-skill-acquisition-career-dominant-focus"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
    "RS-9FB33493564ED0D7"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 122 samples found job-crafting dimensions were differently associated with engagement, satisfaction and performance, so job crafting should not be treated as one uniform behavior.",
      "source_id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Most evidence is correlational and the direction of effects can differ by crafting dimension.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    },
    {
      "claim": "A meta-analysis of 14 job-crafting interventions found modest improvements in job crafting and engagement, with more limited and context-dependent performance evidence.",
      "source_id": "RS-9FB33493564ED0D7",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The intervention literature is small, and task-performance gains were not general across occupations.",
      "locator": "Abstract"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "When a valuable next skill can be practised inside existing work without changing jobs."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Job crafting is context-dependent. Workload, manager expectations, union rules, regulated duties and team fairness can limit what should be changed."
  ],
  "example": "A functional consultant who wants stronger solution-architecture skill volunteers to own one cross-system decision with review from the architect rather than merely taking another architecture course.",
  "check": "The work produces a real sample of the target capability and does not depend on unauthorized role expansion.",
  "steps": [
    "Name the target capability.",
    "Find a current task where it is genuinely relevant.",
    "Agree a bounded increase in challenge or responsibility.",
    "Perform, get feedback and record safe evidence."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-A34967A7C032E728",
      "title": "Job crafting: A meta-analysis of relationships with individual differences, job characteristics, and work outcomes",
      "url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001879117300477"
    },
    {
      "id": "RS-9FB33493564ED0D7",
      "title": "Effectiveness of job crafting interventions: a meta-analysis and utility analysis",
      "url": "https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1359432X.2019.1646728"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9025",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-9026",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/ask-for-one-stretch-responsibility-not-a-vague-bigger-role"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-EA04F47374E04549",
      "title": "Learn new skills, turn them into career evidence, and protect the main development edge",
      "url": "/collections/learn-new-skills-turn-them-into-career-evidence-and-protect-the-main-development-edge"
    }
  ]
}