Consequences of Underqualification

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The purpose of the study is to examine what consequences being underqualified as an employee and/or working with underqualified employees have in the workplace. The research will involve measures at different time points to be able to investigate the moderators and mediators of the relationship between underqualification and potential outcomes. An additional purpose of the study is to examine how being overqualified as an employee relates to subsequent job attitudes (such as job satisfaction), workplace behaviors (such as social loafing, voice, helping others), and employee interactions (such as knowledge sharing, communicating outside the workplace, leader-member exchange). The research will also investigate how certain personality characteristics influence these relationships. In addition to the promising design of our study for being published in a top tier journal, the research may have further considerable academic impact as well. In this study we will investigate the emotional difficulties students might be experiencing. Also we will be examining how to buffer these negative effects. Thus, our research results may guide the decision makers in educational institutions (more specifically in Schools of Aviation and Medicine) to revise their training programs where students are known to be going through a highly challenging and stressful educational process. Starting with two challenging majors, more specifically aviation and medicine educations, this study may also be considered as a call for paying attention to the emotions in designing educational programs. Suicides of students (particularly in the most challenging, competitive, and high scale programs) are a common problem in many educational institutions. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana shared this very sad misfortune in recent years as well. Counseling systems in educational institutions usually provide support only to the students who seek for help. But besides this, there is a vast majority of students who are not experiencing troubles at extremes but having emotional fluctuations particularly in their last year of education and during their internships where they are trained to join the workforce. Considering the psychosocial difficulties faced during these times, this study has potential contributions in addressing a severe problem in higher education institutions. The study can be considered as an initiative to taking the emotions of students into account in developing training programs. Considering the ongoing Pandemic, medicine students have gained a considerable importance. They are an important addition who can support the caregivers when necessary. Thus, a study on examining their educational processes, emotional challenges on the way, and ways to enhance their training may have long-term benefits on the entire society. Even though our sample will be composed of students, our results may be generalized to work settings as well since we will be examining work related emotions and also because our sample will not be solely students but will be apprentices who are going through their first employee experiences. As a result, the study may have potential benefits by shedding light onto onboarding practices in organizations by showing in what ways organizations may help their newcomers to adapt and start working efficiently in a short period of time. In addition to these expected outcomes, possible uses and impact, the study has two ways to contribute in training of students: 1) Training of research assistants taking part in the research study: At least 4 students (2 of them being students at PUJ) will be supporting the study as research assistants. They will be trained along the way on basics of conducting social sciences research, data collection (designing a questionnaire in Qualtrics or other online platforms for data collection), data analysis (using SPSS and other statistical packages when necessary), writing a report for executives, and to a limited extent on writing an academic article. 2) The medicine and aviation students will be offered a workshop after the third wave of the study. Participation will be voluntary. This workshop will be for stress relief via dance. The workshop is actually designed as a way to thank the participants although this will also be a training for them to benefit in their future lives. Our study is focusing on the positive and negative work related emotions and the workshop will be addressing how to cope with the negative emotions.
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Fecha de inicio/Fecha fin01/03/2130/12/25

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  • Humanos

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  • En Ejecución

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  • Interna
  • Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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