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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: 3, Interesting) by mhajicek on Thursday September 22 2016, @01:07AM
The work that the average working person does is increasing in value, but fewer people are working. Workforce participation is at an all time low.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday September 22 2016, @01:25AM
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday September 22 2016, @03:44PM
And you think that the people who are in the developing world are going to be in the developing world forever?
Here's a hint from somebody that's been to the developing world. They're developing. There's a tremendous amount of waste and corruption right now that's holding things back, but as they get things squared away, they're progressing to where we are now. We have more than enough resources for them to live a decent life without working full time as well.
(Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Thursday September 22 2016, @04:37PM
Here's a hint from somebody that's been to the developing world. They're developing. There's a tremendous amount of waste and corruption right now that's holding things back, but as they get things squared away, they're progressing to where we are now. We have more than enough resources for them to live a decent life without working full time as well.
Then don't work full time. I'm not holding you back.