What comes to mind when you hear the term underemployment? Does a slight, disapproving frown purse your lips? Does pity flood your heart? Or do forgotten mental notations to study the topic permeate your brain? Although we are intimately familiar with unemployment and its effects, we are much...

Purpose – Many organizations hold the traditional view that due to the potential of higher job dissatisfaction and employee turnover rates, hiring overqualified job candidates is risky. The purpose of this paper is to take an alternative perspective, using Human Capital and Resource-based...

Purpose: Combining early and untested accountability perspectives with stress research, the authors examined the degree to which employees perceive workplace accountabilities as either worthy challenges to be overcome or potential threats to be avoided. Design/methodology/approach: The authors...

Purpose: Acts of interpersonal influence are observed throughout organizations, and most typically, in direct supervisor–subordinate relationships. However, researchers have focused less on subordinates bypassing the chain of command and targeting their supervisor's supervisor with influence...