Transformational Leadership and Perceived Overqualification: A Career Development Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology

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Man Zhang¹  Fan Wang²  Haolin Weng²  Ting Zhu²  Huiyun Liu² 

[1] Party School of Anhui Provincial Committee of C.P.C.;School of Management, Shanghai University

关键词: transformational leadership;    perceived overqualification;    career growth opportunities;    career development;    career development perspective;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2021.597821

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Drawing on social information processing theory and a career development perspective, we examined the effect of transformational leadership on the perceived overqualification via career growth opportunities, and how the supervisor–subordinate guanxi moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and perceived overqualification. We tested this proposal using three waves of lagged data collected from 351 company employees in the Yangtze River Delta region in China. The results revealed that transformational leadership had an indirect effect on perceived overqualification through career growth opportunities, and supervisor–subordinate guanxi moderated the positive association between transformational leadership and career growth opportunities. In addition, the mediating effect of transformational leadership on perceived overqualification through career growth opportunities was stronger when the level of supervisor–subordinate guanxi was high and weaker when it was low. The findings have theoretical and practical implications for reducing employees’ perceptions of overqualification in the organizational context.

【 授权许可】

CC BY