Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators?
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Resumo: | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the direct effect of the perceived overqualification on the burnout syndrome and the indirect effect through the workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested with a sample of 3,256 contact center operators from one Portuguese company and data were analyzed using the software package Mplus to conduct structural equation models. Findings – The results revealed that workers’ perceived overqualification is positively related to burnout and that both autonomous and controlled motivation partially mediates this relationship. Research limitations/implications – The cross-sectional design should be regarded as a limitation. Moreover, each variable was only assessed with self-reported measures, the sample comprised call center employees from only one company and one country (Portugal), and the workers were all employed in commercial services of telecommunications, energy, banking or insurance companies, which may constrain the generalization of these results. Practical implications – Workers’ perceived overqualification should be avoided to prevent their burnout. Furthermore, an increase in workers’ skills and competencies, enhanced decision latitude, and the task variety and quality should be crucial for employees to develop more autonomous motivation to work in a contact center and the promotion of their well-being at work. More precisely, as overqualification concerns the employees’ perceptions of surplus education, experience and knowledge, from a practical perspective, enhancing the decision latitude, task variety and quality of these individuals’ work may contribute to decreasing individuals’ perception of overqualification and, therefore, contribute to increasing workers’ autonomous motivations and well-being. Originality/value – This study provides evidence concerning the mediating role of both workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation to explain the relationship between perceived overqualification and burnout. Keywords Motivation, Conditions of employment, Employees, Human resource management, Well-being, human resource planning. |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators?MotivationConditions of employmentEmployeesHuman resource managementWell-beingHuman resource planningPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the direct effect of the perceived overqualification on the burnout syndrome and the indirect effect through the workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested with a sample of 3,256 contact center operators from one Portuguese company and data were analyzed using the software package Mplus to conduct structural equation models. Findings – The results revealed that workers’ perceived overqualification is positively related to burnout and that both autonomous and controlled motivation partially mediates this relationship. Research limitations/implications – The cross-sectional design should be regarded as a limitation. Moreover, each variable was only assessed with self-reported measures, the sample comprised call center employees from only one company and one country (Portugal), and the workers were all employed in commercial services of telecommunications, energy, banking or insurance companies, which may constrain the generalization of these results. Practical implications – Workers’ perceived overqualification should be avoided to prevent their burnout. Furthermore, an increase in workers’ skills and competencies, enhanced decision latitude, and the task variety and quality should be crucial for employees to develop more autonomous motivation to work in a contact center and the promotion of their well-being at work. More precisely, as overqualification concerns the employees’ perceptions of surplus education, experience and knowledge, from a practical perspective, enhancing the decision latitude, task variety and quality of these individuals’ work may contribute to decreasing individuals’ perception of overqualification and, therefore, contribute to increasing workers’ autonomous motivations and well-being. Originality/value – This study provides evidence concerning the mediating role of both workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation to explain the relationship between perceived overqualification and burnout. Keywords Motivation, Conditions of employment, Employees, Human resource management, Well-being, human resource planning.Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica PortuguesaChambel, Maria JoséCarvalho, Vânia S.Lopes, SílviaCesário, Francisco2021-05-13T11:32:17Z2021-09-132021-09-13T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33083eng1934-883510.1108/IJOA-08-2020-237285106308306000647743100001info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-26T01:37:33Zoai:repositorio.ucp.pt:10400.14/33083Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T18:26:44.313648Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? Chambel, Maria José Motivation Conditions of employment Employees Human resource management Well-being Human resource planning |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Perceived overqualification and contact center workers’ burnout: are motivations mediators? |
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Chambel, Maria José |
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Chambel, Maria José Carvalho, Vânia S. Lopes, Sílvia Cesário, Francisco |
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Carvalho, Vânia S. Lopes, Sílvia Cesário, Francisco |
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Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
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Chambel, Maria José Carvalho, Vânia S. Lopes, Sílvia Cesário, Francisco |
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Motivation Conditions of employment Employees Human resource management Well-being Human resource planning |
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Motivation Conditions of employment Employees Human resource management Well-being Human resource planning |
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the direct effect of the perceived overqualification on the burnout syndrome and the indirect effect through the workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation. Design/methodology/approach – The hypotheses were tested with a sample of 3,256 contact center operators from one Portuguese company and data were analyzed using the software package Mplus to conduct structural equation models. Findings – The results revealed that workers’ perceived overqualification is positively related to burnout and that both autonomous and controlled motivation partially mediates this relationship. Research limitations/implications – The cross-sectional design should be regarded as a limitation. Moreover, each variable was only assessed with self-reported measures, the sample comprised call center employees from only one company and one country (Portugal), and the workers were all employed in commercial services of telecommunications, energy, banking or insurance companies, which may constrain the generalization of these results. Practical implications – Workers’ perceived overqualification should be avoided to prevent their burnout. Furthermore, an increase in workers’ skills and competencies, enhanced decision latitude, and the task variety and quality should be crucial for employees to develop more autonomous motivation to work in a contact center and the promotion of their well-being at work. More precisely, as overqualification concerns the employees’ perceptions of surplus education, experience and knowledge, from a practical perspective, enhancing the decision latitude, task variety and quality of these individuals’ work may contribute to decreasing individuals’ perception of overqualification and, therefore, contribute to increasing workers’ autonomous motivations and well-being. Originality/value – This study provides evidence concerning the mediating role of both workers’ autonomous and controlled motivation to explain the relationship between perceived overqualification and burnout. Keywords Motivation, Conditions of employment, Employees, Human resource management, Well-being, human resource planning. |
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