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Employee Overqualification and Manager Job Insecurity: Implications for Employee Career Outcomes
Human Resource Management
  • Berrin Erdogan, Portland State University
  • Zahide Karakitapoğlu‐Aygün, Bilkent University, Department of Management, Ankara, Turkey
  • David Ellis Caughlin, Portland State University
  • Talya N. Bauer, Portland State University
  • Lale Gumusluoglu, Bilkent University, Department of Management, Ankara, Turkey
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Subjects
  • Perceived Overqualification -- Employees
Abstract

In this study, we propose that manager job insecurity will moderate the nature of the relationship between perceived overqualification and employee career-related outcomes (career satisfaction, promotability ratings, and voluntary turnover). We tested our hypotheses using a sample of 124 employees and 54 managers working in a large holding company in Ankara, Turkey, collected across five time periods. The results suggested that average perceived overqualification was more strongly, and negatively, related to career satisfaction of employees when managers reported higher job insecurity. Furthermore, employee perceived overqualification was positively related to voluntary turnover when manager job insecurity was high. No direct or moderated effects were found for promotability ratings. Implications for overqualification and job insecurity literatures were discussed.

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https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.22012

DOI
10.1002/hrm.22012
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33375
Citation Information
Erdogan, B., Karakitapoğlu‐Aygün, Z., Caughlin, D. E., Bauer, T. N., & Gumusluoglu, L. (2020). Employee overqualification and manager job insecurity: Implications for employee career outcomes. Human Resource Management.