The Effect of Overqualification on Career Satisfaction across Career Plateau and Relative Deprivation: The Case of Public Offices in Najafaabaad

Subject Areas : Human resources management)

Reza Sepahvand ¹ , Razieh Montazeri ²

1 - Prof, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economic and Administration, Lorestan
2 - Ph.D. Candidate, Public Administration, Organizational Behavior, Faculty of Economic & Administration, Lorestan University.

Received: 2021-03-16 Accepted : 2021-09-05 Published : 2021-12-22

Keywords: Relative Deprivation, Career plateau, Overqualification, Career Satisfaction,

Abstract :

The main concern of organizational managers is to maintain effective human resources and one way to achieve the goal is to create and increase the staff career satisfaction. Two antecedents of career dissatisfaction, however, are feeling overqualified for one’s organizational position and plateau. The study set out to investigate the effect of overqualification on Najafaabaad public office employees’ career satisfaction with the mediating role of career plateau and relative deprivation. The research population comprised 370 department staff from whom a proportional sample of 169 was proportionally selected based on Morgan table. The research variables were measured via a number of questionnaires designed by Maynard et al. (2006), Callan et al. (2011), Greenhaus et al. (1990) and Wickramasinghe and Jayaweera (2010) whose reliability measures were confirmed through Cronbach's alpha and combined reliability. The data collected were further analyzed via Structural Equation Modeling and Pls Software. The findings bore on the significant reducing effect of overqualification on employees career satisfaction in the workplace.  

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