The Impact of Underemployment on Employee’s Attitude (A Quantitative Study on District Peshawar)

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Azhar Khan , Farah Nadir Astt , Maryam Bibi ,

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Volume 6 - April 2017 (04)

Abstract

Underemployment is a widely witnessed phenomenon in the world we live in today. The problem lies in the fact that cause of underemployment cannot be eliminated without identifying the areas where underemployment is high. Only after one has identified the level of underemployment, one can take initiatives to eliminate it from workspace or do something to convert this skill into real value for the company. This research therefore focuses on understanding and identifying levels of underemployment and linking it with job attitude of employees in order to conclude that aftermath of underemployment as a highly negative trait that can create inefficiencies in the company. The significance of this research is high as no specific concerns are raised usually in our country regarding the problem of underemployment. The research is based on quantitative research methods because the same is used when numerical confirmation is done for variables that exist in the literature; which is why the nature of study is deductive as it tries to deduce that relationship between the two variables using quantitative tools. The population of this research includes people who are underemployed at their jobs. There is no boundary of gender, race, religion, ethnicity however the targeted age group is the working class which ranges from 20 years to 40 years. The sampling technique used for this research was snowball whereas the sample size is limited to 100 respondents due to time constraints. Correlation and regression analysis was done on the primary data that was collected from the respondents through survey questionnaire. The results suggest that there is a strong and negative relationship between underemployment and job attitude. Furthermore, it is concluded that decreasing underemployment would increase job attitudes, behaviour and performance since underemployment is having a negative relationship and variation towards job attitudes. Based on the conclusions, it is recommended that companies conduct identification studies on their own in their organizations in order to identify the levels of underemployment within the company. Only after one has identified the problem, one can eliminate it.

Keywords

Underemployment, Job Attitude, Behaviour, Performance. 

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