Implications of Perceived Overqualification for Employee\u27s Close Social ties: The Moderating Role of External Organizational Prestige

In this study, we examine the relationship between perceived overqualification and life satisfaction of an employee\u27s close social ties, as mediated by employee\u27s perceived career performance and life satisfaction. Further, we propose that close social ties\u27 perceptions of organizational prestige moderates this mediating process. In a sample of 118 employees from a Greek organization in the gambling industry and their close social ties (i.e., spouses, romantic partners, parents, siblings, or close friends), we found that close social ties\u27 perceptions of organizational prestige moderated the relationships of perceived overqualification with both perceived career performance and employee life satisfaction in a way that these relationships were negative only when employees\u27 close social ties perceived that the organization where employees worked had lower (vs. higher) prestige. Further, results showed that the indirect relationship between perceived overqualification and close social ties\u27 life satisfaction via employee life satisfaction was negative only when prestige was lower, and nonsignificant when organizational prestige was higher. Implications for theory and practice are discussed