Perceived Overqualification: A Review and Recommendations for Research and Practice

By Songqi Liu, Mo Wang. 2012

168 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Gender Studies

1. B. Erdogan
2. T. Bauer
3. Jing Zhou
4. Bilian Lin
5. K. Law
6. C. Viswesvaran
7. Chia-huei Wu
8. A. Luksyte

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. B. Erdogan
2. T. Bauer
3. A. Luksyte
4. Chia-huei Wu
5. C. Viswesvaran
6. Bilian Lin
7. K. Law
8. Michael B. Harari

Citations in the corpus

• Who thinks they're a big fish in a small pond and why does it matter? A meta-analysis of perceived overqualification (2017, background): “Because of this, as noted in Liu and Wang (2012), it is possible “that perceived overqualification is merely a reflection of one's negative emotional tendency” (p. 32).”
• You think you are big fish in a small pond? Perceived overqualification, goal orientations, and proactivity at work (2016, background): “…research has indicated that the consequences of overqualification might vary across individuals depending on how they view their employment situations, with overqualification sometimes leading to positive outcomes (Erdogan, Bauer, Peiró, & Truxillo, 2011; Liu & Wang, 2012; Thompson et al., 2013).”
• A Relational Model of Perceived Overqualification: The Moderating Role of Interpersonal Influence on Social Acceptance (2016, unknown): “In brief, because perceived overqualification denotes surplus job capacity employees possess for carrying out their current jobs, overqualified employees may hold “a positive view of their job competence” (Zhang, Law, & Lin, 2016: 62) and sense of agency (Liu & Wang, 2012).”
• Why is Underemployment Related to Creativity and OCB? A Task-Crafting Explanation of the Curvilinear Moderated Relations (2017, background): “The underemployed workers have underused capabilities and more time to engage in extra activities at work because they can complete their assigned tasks more quickly than thosewho arenot underemployed (Liu & Wang, 2012).”
• Perceived Overqualification and Collectivism Orientation: Implications for Work and Nonwork Outcomes (2020, background): “Researchers have only theorized that overqualified employees are likely to be disengaged at work (e.g., Liu & Wang, 2012).”