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Employee–AI Collaboration and Career Sustainability: The Role of Job Crafting and AI Job Role Clarity
Originally published 2026-08-21 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs16081451 ↗
AI / system type
Required workplace AI use and employee–AI collaboration
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: Required workplace AI use and employee–AI collaboration. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings job crafting, role clarity and career sustainability 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 job crafting, role clarity and career sustainability. Source setting or population: 398 employees required to use AI in their regular work. 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
Which parts of my role can I still shape when AI becomes part of the job?
This three-wave employee survey examines job crafting, role clarity and career sustainability. Its TRICK home is Independence, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
398 employees required to use AI in their regular work
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- Which parts of my role can I still shape when AI becomes part of the job?
- What do this study’s design and population — 398 employees required to use AI in their regular work — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering job crafting, role clarity and career sustainability, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Survey pathways do not establish lasting career benefits or prove that task redesign works in every occupation.
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Huiling Jiang; Yuanyuan Zhang; Shumin Yan (2026). Employee–AI Collaboration and Career Sustainability: The Role of Job Crafting and AI Job Role Clarity Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16081451
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