Browsing by Subject "Työn tuunaaminen"

The aim of the study is to support the implementation of the high-quality early childhood education by promoting work engagement and job crafting of early childhood education teachers ́ as factors of well-being at work. Early childhood education teachers ́ well-being, enthusiasm and experience of the possibilities to influence in their work are seen in this study as the key factors in high-quality early childhood education. The research questions were: what views do early childhood education teachers have on factors that promote work engagement and how do the early childhood education teachers craft their jobs? The study was carried out as a qualitative interview study as a part of a research project, which data was collected through focus group interviews. The research data consists of three focus group interviews with a total of nine early childhood education teachers. The research data was analysed using the data-driven content analysis. Based on the analysis, the results of the study formed three main categories, which described early childhood education teachers ́ factors that promote work engagement, ways of job crafting and job crafting ways that promote work engagement. The factors that promote work engagement were divided into the work practices, personal factors and children. The ways of job crafting were based on crafting the foundation of the work, interactive crafting and goal-oriented crafting. Factors that promote work engagement and job crafting ways were both divided into the upper and lower categories, which partly overlapped with each other. The third category: job crafting ways that promote work engagement, examined both research questions simultaneously. These particularly emphasized communal work and strengthening competence. As topics for further research, it is proposed to study more detail ways.