Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to delve into perceived underqualification, which refers to employees’ awareness that they have deficient abilities relative to their job demands (abilities<demands). In examining person–job (P–J) misfit, previous research has primarily focused on one type of misfit, overqualification (abilities>demands), leaving the other type, underqualification, unexplored. To address the neglect, this...</demands).>

Regarding the relationship between identification and creativity, two theoretical logics compete, suggesting both positive and negative relationships. This study addresses the controversy by invoking regulatory focus theory. At the team level, we theorize that the identification–creativity...

The authors present a four-fold conceptual framework of union roles for enhancing workers' paid maternity leave use, consisting of availability, awareness, affordability, and assurance. Using a panel data set constructed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, workers represented by...

Perceived overqualification and underqualification, as two forms of person – job misfit in different directions, are expected to negatively relate to job attitudes/performance. However, drawing upon expectancy – value theory of motivation, we propose that employees with overqualification or...

Organizational identification has been suggested as a “root construct” in organizational behavior as it captures visceral identity connection between individual and organization. Yet, no empirical support for the notion exists in the literature, so this study tests organizational...