Abstract: The negative effects of non-compliant task perception are widely concerned within organizations, but with the increasing blurring of job boundaries, the phenomenon of employees actively coping with challenges posed by non-compliant tasks has also drawn growing interest. According to the cognitive stress appraisal theory, non-compliant task perception, as a novel stress source, exhibits duality in its impact mechanisms on employees' job crafting behaviors — specifically, it induces negative emotions through emotional rumination and triggers positive cognition through problem-solving contemplation. The empirical results based on 651 employee self-assessment data from three time points indicate that the perception of non-compliant tasks can both trigger emotional rumination, thereby inhibiting employees' job crafting behavior, and activate problem-solving reflection, thereby promoting employees' job crafting behavior. The constructive change responsibility plays a negative moderating role between the perception of non-compliant tasks and emotional rumination, while it exerts a positive moderating effect between the perception of non-compliant tasks and problem-solving reflection. Based on this, managers should comprehensively understand the dual path mechanism of non compliant task perception through work rumination, which has a“double-edged sword”impact on employees' work reshaping. They should optimize communication methods for task allocation, cultivate a sense of constructive change responsibility, and encourage work reshaping to provide conditions for their transformation into positive results.

Key words: perceived non-compliant tasks, affective rumination, problem-solving pondering, responsibility for constructive change, job crafting behavior