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Perceived Overqualification, Felt Organizational Obligation, And Extra-Role Behavior During The Covid-19 Crisis: The Moderating Role Of Self-Sacrificial Leadership, Chia-Huei Wu, Hannah Weisman, Li-Kuo Sung, Berrin Erdogan, Talya N. Bauer

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Past research has found that employees who view themselves as overqualified for their jobs tend to hold negative job attitudes and be unwilling to go beyond the call of duty. In challenging situations such as during the COVID-19 crisis, when having “all hands-on deck” may be important to an organization’s survival, mitigating the negative tendencies of these employees becomes important. Adopting a sensemaking perspective on crisis management, we examine whether supervisors’ self-sacrificial leadership can mitigate these negative tendencies. First, we propose that employee perceived overqualification is associated with lower levels of felt obligation to the organization and thereby lower levels …