Thriving at work: understanding how initiative librarians take opportunities and cope with challenges
ENThe paper aims to determine how initiative Lithuanian library professionals create an engaging and empowering work environment and cope withchallenges.Job resource-demands model (JD-R) that is widely applied in organisational psychology was used as a methodological research framework. The data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews with Lithuanian library professionals. Qualitative content analysis was used to interpret the results.Results showed that job demands distinguished by the respondents mostly related to general management and organisational environments and the nature of tasks they performed; job resources covered the nature of work, social and physical environments. Personal resources that inspired the balance between job demands and resources included positive thinking, enthusiasm, prosocial motivation and self-efficacy.The findings of the current research and JD-R model, in general, could be usefully employed by library managers to balance job demands with opportunities and library employees –to take an active role in shaping their own work experience. JD-R allows combining library manager and employee perspectives on creating a motivating work environment and provides an insight how personal resources may influence coping with job demands, while job opportunities –cultivating personal resources.
