Empowerment or burden? The impact of overqualification on different types of job crafting

Existing research on overqualification has mostly focused on its negative consequences while neglecting the resource value it embodies. Although studies have indicated that organizations can stimulate its positive potential through job crafting, the relationship between overqualification and job crafting remains controversial. Integrating conservation of resources theory and regulatory focus theory, this study, through a scenario simulation experimental study and a field study with three-wave data, respectively, explores how overqualification, under different levels of occupational delay of gratification, influences promotive and preventive job crafting through job insecurity. The results reveal that for employees with high occupational delay of gratification, overqualification reduces job insecurity, thereby stimulating promotive job...