Overqualification at Multiple Levels of the Organization

Abstract

Overqualification is an essential topic in the management field (Erdogan & Bauer, 2021; Feldman, 1996). Scholars debated the mixed effects of overqualification mostly on the individual level (Lee, Erdogan, Tian, Willis, & Cao, 2020). Although several studies recently started to focus on this topic from the team level (Hu, Erdogan, Bauer, Jiang, Liu, & Li, 2015), research on overqualification at within-person and firm levels is still lacking. Echoing Sierra (2011) 's call on multilevel examination and considering the cross-level effects overqualification caused in reality, we prepare this symposium to understand how overqualification manifests itself and has impacts across levels in the organizations. We organize this symposium with five papers, and each represents a critical research question at various levels of analysis. Another noticeable element of this symposium is that we took time into consideration, in the examples of looking at newcomers’ socialization, dyadic support over time, and leadership emergence. Newcomer Overqualification and Performance Trajectory: A social Capital Change Perspective Presenter: Wuyang Chen; Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic U. Perceived Overqualification, Changing Self-Efficacy and Strategic Scanning Behavior Presenter: Fulei Chu; Capital U. of Economics and Business How Does the Overqualified Employee Become a Leader? A Dual-strategy Model Presenter: Bingjie Yu; Hong Kong Baptist U. Support Me or Undermine Me: Supervisor Reactions to Overqualified Employees Presenter: Chenggang Duan; Xi'an Jiaotong U. Does Prior Technological Knowledge Facilitate or Inhibit the Learning Process of New Ventures? Presenter: Shelly Lev-Koren; Technion - Israel Institute of Technology