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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Organizational Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1398163
This article is part of the Research Topic Innovative and Creative Behaviours in the Modern Workplace: Causes and Consequences View all 7 articles

Employee perceived overqualification and innovation performance: the roles of self-oriented perfectionism and job crafting

Provisionally accepted
Hongxin Qiu Hongxin Qiu 1*Bing Jiang Bing Jiang 1Siyi Liu Siyi Liu 1Ji Zhang Ji Zhang 2
  • 1 School of Management, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China
  • 2 School of Economics, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China

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    Leveraging the trait activation theory, the study constructs a model featuring moderated chain mediation to explore how perceived overqualification influences employee innovation performance. After conducting two surveys with Chinese employees, this study collects 363 valid questionnaires. The findings reveal that perceived overqualification is positively related to employee innovation performance. Both self-oriented perfectionism and job crafting are partial mediators between perceived overqualification and innovation performance, and they collectively play a chain mediating role. Furthermore, independent self-construction positively moderates the link between perceived overqualification and self-oriented perfectionism, and informal status positively moderates the relationship between job crafting and employee innovation performance. Additionally, the indirect influence of perceived overqualification on employee innovation performance is moderated by independent self-construction and informal status. This study adds to the current body of literature on perceived overqualification and offers practical implications for organizations aiming to enhance innovation performance.

    Keywords: perceived overqualification, Self-oriented perfectionism, Job crafting, innovation performance, independent self-construction, Informal status

    Received: 09 Mar 2024; Accepted: 19 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Qiu, Jiang, Liu and Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Hongxin Qiu, School of Management, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, China

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