All for striving status: how and when do overqualified employees engage in OCB towards individual

Does Overqualification Play a Promoting or a Hindering Role? The Impact of Public Employees’ Perceived Overqualification on Workplace Behaviors

“…Comparatively speaking, nevertheless, POQ is probably going to result in negative cognitive bias, which lowers OCB [30]. This is also supported by the data results from the available studies [27,30]. It can be seen that the positive or negative mechanism between POQ and OCB requires further discussion among scholars.…”

“…Second, the approach results showed that while POQ was unable to produce a direct correlation with OCB, it might nevertheless support OCB by increasing the perceived control of public employees. The findings about the relationship between POQ and OCB are contradictory; some research [23,114] indicates a negative correlation between the two, while other studies [27,30] indicate a positive correlation. We believe that different mechanisms of impact are the cause of the conflicting conclusions, based on the results of this study and the research that has already been carried out.…”

“…We believe that different mechanisms of impact are the cause of the conflicting conclusions, based on the results of this study and the research that has already been carried out. For instance, while encouraging a positive incentive to attain status, POQ raises OCB [27]. Comparatively speaking, nevertheless, POQ is probably going to result in negative cognitive bias, which lowers OCB [30].…”

“…Some scholars believe that POQ will reduce OCB, which is mainly based on negative emotions, such as boredom [23,24], negative cognitive perspectives, such as relative deprivation [25], and person-environment fit [26]. Some scholars believe that POQ will promote OCB, which is mainly based on the motivation perspective [27] and positive cognitive perspectives such as self-efficacy, self-expectations [28,29], and relational cognitive [30]. The above discussion rarely considers the individual assessment of the resources.…”

Knowledge seeking or sabotage? The effect of coworker relative overqualification on employee reaction from social comparison theory

“…Due to the worldwide economic downturn during the early 21st century and the full outbreak of COVID-19, global employment opportunities are in short supply, and overqualification has become a salient issue around the world (Zhang et al , 2016; Liu et al , 2022). According to statistics, 84% Chinese employees have claimed that they were overqualified for their jobs to various extents (Randstad Workmonitor Global Press Report, 2012).…”