Relationship Between Perceived Over Qualification And Job Crafting

The overqualification is defined as individual’s processing more education,experience,knowledge,skills or abilities than their job requires.With the expansion of colleges and various training institutions in the society,it lead to the phenomenon of overqualification in enterprises.In the past,studies on the overqualification were all passive responses to job mismatches.However,employees are not just passively accepting their work in the workplace.The feeling of not taking full advantage of the capabilities may drive them to start the corresponding strategies and redesign their work,which is job crafting.At present,domestic and foreign scholars have little research on the mechanism of overqualification on the job crafting.So it has important significance to study the perceived overqualification and how it influences the job crafting.This study builds a research model which includes perceived overqualification,affective commitment,work autonomy and job crafting.There are 312 valid questionnaires which were collected on employees of different industries and different types of business.The questionnaire data was analyzed using Amos 21.0 and SPSS 21.0 software,and the relevant hypotheses were tested.There are main conclusions of this study :(1)The sense of perceived overqualification has a significant negative effect on job crafting;(2)Affective commitment plays an intermediary role between the perceived overqualification and job crafting;(3)Work autonomy plays a negative regulatory role in the relationship between perceived overqualification and affective commitment.