Date of Award

Summer 6-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Program/Concentration

Business Administration - Information Technology

Committee Director

Lan Cao

Committee Director

Eun Hee Park

Committee Member

Chunsheng Xin

Abstract

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like GenAI tools increasingly reshape the workplace, employees increasingly face threats to their work identity. Grounded in the identity threat response model and job crafting theory, this study investigates how AI identity threat influences employee AI job crafting behaviors and how these behaviors, in turn, affect vitality and learning. Using survey data from 521 full-time employees who actively engage with AI tools, the results indicate that AI identity threat stimulates both AI approach job crafting and AI avoidance job crafting. AI approach crafting enhances both vitality and learning, while AI avoidance crafting only supports vitality. Furthermore, harmonious passion amplifies the relationship between AI identity threat and AI avoidance job crafting, whereas obsessive passion weakens it.

These findings contribute to the literature by extending identity threat theory into the context of AI, distinguishing the dual dimensions of thriving, and revealing the role of emotional passion orientations in job crafting. Practically, the findings offer actionable insights for organizations implementing AI, emphasizing the need to support job crafting and cultivate healthy forms of work passion to help employees thrive in AI-driven environments.

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DOI

10.25777/838n-py61

ISBN

9798293842704

ORCID

0000-0002-4256-8476

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