The Influence Of Perceived Overqualification On Job Crafting Behavior Of The New Generation Employees

Overqualification refers to the fact that an individual has more education,knowledge,experience,skills and abilities than their job required.Overqualification is divided into subjective overqualification and objective overqualification.Subjective overqualification,also known as the perceived overqualification,is closely related to the psychological and behavioral performance of employees,and has been widely concerned by scholars.In recent years,with the increasing prevalence of overqualification,the focus of scholars has gradually shifted from the negative effects of perceived overqualification to the positive effects it may bring.Job crafting,a bottom-up job redesign,is one of the possible positive effects of the perceived overqualification.It can not only improve the degree of person-job matching,but also bring a series of good workplace effects.However,research on this topic is very limited,and we still know little about how perceived overqualification affects employees’ job crafting behavior.Considering that today’s main labor force is the “post-90s”,and they are more likely to have a sense of overqualification,this study takes employees born in1990-1999 as the respondent,and under the guidance of person-job fit and expectancy theory,deeply explores the influence mechanism of the new generation employees’ perceived overqualification on their job crafting behavior.The mediating effect of role width self-efficacy and the moderating effect of future work self-definition were also tested.Using SPSS25.0 and AMOS24.0,this paper analyzes the questionnaire data from 382 new generation employees,the results show that: the perceived overqualification of the new generation employees positively affects their their job crafting behavior;role width self-efficacy plays a significant part in mediating the impact overqualification on job crafting behavior;future work self-definition enhanced the positive effect of role width self-efficacy on job crafting behavior;the indirect effect of employees’ perceived overqualification on their job crafting behavior through role width self-efficacy is moderated by future work self-definition also.The results of this study will complement existing research in the following two aspects.Firstly,from a new perspective,the influence mechanism of perceived overqualification on employees’ job crafting behavior is explored.Secondly,it can enrich the sample group for discussing the relationship between the perceived overqualification and job crafting behavior.At the same time,the research results will also provide a reference for organizational managers to update the concept of talent and improve management ability.