“I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment

By F. McKee-Ryan, Jaron Harvey. 2011

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Subfields: Education, General Health Professions, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Employees' satisfaction with retention factors: Exploring the role of career adaptability (2015, background): “Career adaptability resources are presumed to help prevent person–jobmismatch and underemployment and positively influence career satisfaction and retention (Gutman & Schoon, 2012; McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011; Takase, Nakayoshi, & Teraoka, 2012).”
I'm Too Good for This Job: Narcissism's Role in the Experience of Overqualification (2015, background): “For example, overqualification has been shown to be negatively related to job attitudes and health outcomes, and positively related to turnover intentions (McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011).”
The psychology of job loss: using social media data to characterize and predict unemployment (2016, background): “, [5] and large-scale meta-analyses [30], [33] document many more effects including psychological effects such as lowered self-esteem, and physiological symptoms including an increased mortality rate.”
Perceived Overqualification and Collectivism Orientation: Implications for Work and Nonwork Outcomes (2020, background): “Nonacademic university employees are often tied to a specific geographic area and thus are employed in jobs that are available, for which they often feel overqualified (McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011).”
Employee Job Search (2012, neutral): “Such measures are particularly important given the recent economic downturn, as many individuals may have had to settle for less when finding new employment (McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011), although they may still consider such employment better than the alternative of remaining unemployed.”
Training career adaptability to facilitate a successful school-to-work transition (2012, background): “…better than no job at all, the negative consequences of underemployment are rather similar to those of unemployment in terms of lower well-being, lower life satisfaction and more physical and psychological strain (e.g. Feldman, 1996; Kinicki, Prussia, & McKee-Ryan, 2000; McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011).”
Perceived overqualification and task performance: Reconciling two opposing pathways (2020, background): “As a result, perceptions of overqualification (POQ), or the perception that one is employed in a job that requires less education, experience, and abilities than one possesses (Johnson & Johnson, 2000), are increasingly common among employees (McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011).”
Perceived overqualification and withdrawal behaviours: Examining the roles of job attitudes and work values (2013, background): “Person–job fit Researchers (e.g., Feldman, 1996; McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011) have consistently hypothesized that overqualification will be associated with negative outcomes for both the employee and organization.”
Whistle While You Work (2012, background): “Examining the complex effects of income, employment, underemployment (McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011), and unemployment on life satisfaction is also important to understand the process by which an individual experiences life satisfaction.”
Why is Underemployment Related to Creativity and OCB? A Task-Crafting Explanation of the Curvilinear Moderated Relations (2017, methodology): “In contrast to objective underemployment, perceived underemployment represents the focal employees’ subjective experiences of underemployment (Feldman, 1996; McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011).”
You think you are big fish in a small pond? Perceived overqualification, goal orientations, and proactivity at work (2016, methodology): “J) fit/misfit, relative deprivation, equity theory, and human capital theory (see McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011, for a review) to study perceived overqualification.”
A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016, positive): “…been unanimous on the importance of the examination of the potential moderators (e.g., Erdogan et al., 2011b; Liu et al., 2015; Liu & Wang, 2012; McKee-Ryan & Harvey, 2011), and a few studies have endeavored to uncover factors that can shape the effects of overqualification, such as empowerment…”