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Title Perceived Overqualification and Innovative Behavior: High-Order Moderating Effects of Length of Service
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Authors Sun, YB; Qiu, ZC
Title Perceived Overqualification and Innovative Behavior: High-Order Moderating Effects of Length of Service
Year 2022
Published Sustainability, 14, 6
DOI 10.3390/su14063493
Abstract Perceived overqualification has been a hot topic in the field of organizational behavior in recent years and has become very common with the spread of education. In addition, in the current era of open innovation, the demand for innovative behaviors by enterprises is increasing day by day. Therefore, this study intended to link the two to explore the relationship between them. Based on self-evaluation theory and face theory, taking enterprise employees as the research object, this paper discusses the impact of perceived overqualifications on employees' innovative behavior and the internal mechanism and examines the first-order and high-order moderating effects of ability-face pressure and length of service in turn. The results showed that perceived overqualifications had a positive impact on employees' innovation behavior, and felt trust had a mediating role in the relationship. Ability face pressure played a negative moderating role in the impact of felt trust on innovative behavior and played a negative moderating role in the impact of perceived overqualifications on innovative behavior. With the increase in the length of service, the negative moderating effect of ability face pressure on the relationship between perceived overqualifications and employees' innovative behavior weakened. It is expected that these results will enable companies to understand the internal mechanisms of employee perceived overqualification, enlighten leaders to give more trust to employees, help companies to improve employees' innovative behavior, and pay attention to the psychological factors of employees, which will help to create a sustainable work environment and promote sustainable business development.
Author Keywords perceived overqualification; innovation behavior; felt trust; ability face pressure; length of service; sustainable development
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:000774433200001
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/6/3493/pdf?version=1647432078
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