You think you are big fish in a small pond? Perceived overqualification, goal orientations, and proactivity at work

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A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016, unknown): “With a few exceptions (Chen, 2009; Hu et al., 2015; Zhang et al., 2016), the majority of research on overqualification has examined its implications for in-role performance, largely ignoring extrarole performance (cf.”
Perceived overqualification and task performance: Reconciling two opposing pathways (2020, background): “For instance, Zhang et al. (2016) showed that employees who saw themselves as overqualified tended to report higher self-efficacy to complete a broad range of job tasks, which in turn led them to display more proactive job behaviours.”
Perceived Overqualification at Work: Implications for Extra-Role Behaviors and Advice Network Centrality (2018, methodology): “outcomes such as proactive behaviors targeting coworkers (Zhang et al., 2016), social acceptance, and altruism (Deng, Guan, Wu, Erdogan, Bauer, & Yao, in press) suggest that any observed positive effects are conditional, and in some cases the effects are negative (e.”