... Overqualification Misfit Moral justification Cyberloafing Fariborz Rahimnia can be contacted at: r-nia@um.ac.ir 19 04 2024 28 01 2025 18 06 2025 06 08 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Although its...

... whether idiosyncratic deals (i-deals) mitigate perceptions of job insecurity (resource conservation) and alleviate feelings of overqualification (resource acquisition). Design/methodology/approach Study 1 analyzes survey data from 4,803 employees to examine the indirect effects of various types of i...

...Runsheng Pan; Zhijin Hou Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the boundary conditions between objective overqualification and perceived overqualification. In addition, we aim to investigate the mediation patterns between objective overqualification, perceived overqualification...

...Mohsen Rafiei; Hans Van Dijk Purpose Early research on overqualification suggested that overqualification is primarily associated with negative attitudes and behavior. As a consequence, hiring practitioners were advised against hiring overqualified job applicants. However, recent studies have...

...Mukta Kulkarni; Mark L. Lengnick-Hall; Patricia G. Martinez Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how employers define overqualification and mismatched qualification and whether they are willing to hire applicants whose educational and work experience credentials do not match job...

... propel research that is dynamic and contextually driven: attributes of the overqualified individual; job attributes; observers’ cognitive overqualification schemas; observers’ attitudes; observers’ categorization processes; the organizational context; and individual factors, all of which influence...