Too smart for their own good? A study of perceived cognitive overqualification in the workforce

By Saul Fine, Baruch Nevo. 2008

182 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. B. Erdogan
2. T. Bauer
3. Chia-huei Wu
4. Sharon K. Parker
5. A. Luksyte
6. Jaron Harvey
7. K. Law
8. Bilian Lin

In Social Psychology

1. B. Erdogan
2. Chia-huei Wu
3. Sharon K. Parker
4. Jaron Harvey
5. T. Bauer
6. K. Law
7. Bilian Lin
8. Melody Zhang

Citations in the corpus

• I'm Too Good for This Job: Narcissism's Role in the Experience of Overqualification (2015, background): “Of all the associations with overqualification that have been studied, the link with job satisfaction appears to be the strongest and most well established (Feldman, 2011; Fine & Nevo, 2008; Khan & Morrow, 1991; Jones Johnson & Johnson, 2000; Maynard et al., 2006; Maynard & Parfyonova, 2013).”
• Perceived overqualification and task performance: Reconciling two opposing pathways (2020, result): “Thus, while some studies found a negative relationship (Bolino & Feldman, 2000), others showed a positive relationship (Erdogan & Bauer, 2009; Fine & Nevo, 2008; Holtom, Lee, & Tidd, 2002), a non-significant relationship (Lobene & Meade, 2013), or a conditional relationship (Deng, Guan, Wu,…”
• Overqualification and Subjective Well-Being at Work: The Moderating Role of Job Autonomy and Culture (2015, background): “…employees tend to be dissatisfied with their jobs and experience lowered affective commitment (Bolino and Feldman 2000; Feldman et al. 2002; Fine and Nevo 2008; Johnson and Johnson 2000a, b; Johnson et al. 2002), are psychologically and physically more distressed (Johnson and Johnson 1996,…”
• Overqualified Employees: Making the Best of a Potentially Bad Situation for Individuals and Organizations (2011, background): “Fine and Nevo (2008) studied customer service representatives in the USA and showed that perceived overqualification was positively related to supervisor ratings of performance.”
• “I Have a Job, But . . .”: A Review of Underemployment (2011, background): “…and overqualification, the positive relationship between overqualification and supervisor ratings of performance (Erdogan et al., in press; Fine & Nevo, 2008; Holtom et al., 2002), and the negative relation between overqualification and self-ratings of performance (Bolino & Feldman, 2000).”
• You think you are big fish in a small pond? Perceived overqualification, goal orientations, and proactivity at work (2016, background): “37, 61–84 (2016) Published online 23 May 2015 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/job.2024 R esearch A rticle shown to exhibit higher supervisor-rated performance (Fine, 2007; Fine & Nevo, 2008) and task performance (Erdogan & Bauer, 2009; Holtom, Lee, & Tidd, 2002).”