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- Title
You think you are big fish in a small pond? Perceived overqualification, goal orientations, and proactivity at work.
- Authors
Zhang, Melody Jun; Law, Kenneth S.; Lin, Bilian
- Abstract
Overqualification denotes situations in which job incumbents have higher qualifications than those required for the job. Drawing on the self-regulatory perspective, we proposed that employees' perception of overqualification positively affects their proactive behavior through the mechanism of role-breadth selfefficacy and that this indirect effect is moderated by employees' goal orientations. We tested our hypotheses through two studies. In Study 1, we found that perceived overqualification had a positive indirect effect on employees' proactive behavior through role-breadth self-efficacy using a sample of 323 salespeople with a cross-lagged panel design. In Study 2, the multi-wave and multi-source data from 302 teachers confirmed the indirect effect and indicated that performance goal orientation and learning goal orientation moderated the indirect relationship.
- Subjects
PERCEIVED discrimination; JOB qualifications; SELF-efficacy; SALES personnel; GOAL setting in personnel management
- Publication
Journal of Organizational Behavior (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 2016, Vol 37, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0894-3796
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/job.2024