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Having underemployed workers can lead to two outcomes that benefit an organization—creativity and commitment to the organization—according to a new study by management experts at Rice University, Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen and Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Statistics have shown that a significant proportion of workers worldwide are underemployed or working at jobs that are below their capacity. Researchers have estimated that underemployment ranges from 17 percent to two-thirds of the workforce in Asia, Europe and North America, according to the study.
"Our results have important implications for managers," said study co-author Jing Zhou, the Houston Endowment Professor of Management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business. "Managers should not assume that employees will always respond negatively to their perception of being underemployed. Our results suggest that managers need to be vigilant in detecting perceptions of underemployment among employees.
"When managers notice that their employees feel underemployed, they should support employees' efforts to proactively change the boundaries or formal descriptions of their work tasks, such as changing the sequencing of the tasks, increasing the number of tasks that they do or enlarging the scope of the tasks," she said. "Because the perception of underemployment may be experienced by many employees, managers should provide support to sustain positive outcomes in these situations."
Not getting enough hours to qualify for benefits is a good thing?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 21 2016, @08:22PM
> Not getting enough hours to qualify for benefits is a good thing?
Uh, no. If you had read your own submission you would have realized that it is not about the number of hours spent working but the level of work being performed as in the people's abilities are under-utilized, not their time.
Its basically the same theory as google's 20% policy where employees were (sort of) encouraged to spend 20% of their time on stuff they think is interesting and challenging. The end result being (a) employees that are better at the drudgery and (b) occasionally produce some really creative off the wall work that can radically improve the company.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 22 2016, @12:01AM
This may be a first - the article submitter didn't even read their own article.
Soylent really is the on the cutting-edge compared to slashdot!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:44PM