Employee Mismatches & How to Prevent Them
Mismatches
Result from people's needs, interests, values, and expectations not lining up with the characteristics of their jobs
Types
Skills Mismatch
Underqualification
Overqualification
Geographical Mismatch
Jobs move from one area to another
Lack of fit between jobs and people's location
Temporal Mismatch
Overworking
Underworking
Work schedule (service industry, nurses, etc.)
Earnings Mismatch= working poor
Work-Family Mismatch
Time Based
Strain based
When fatigue/frustration affects performance in one role
Behavior Based
When expectations in one role for behavior do not align with expectations in the other
Results in: Dissatisfaction, decreased retention
Solutions
Institutional and Structural
These problems aren't as great in other countries whose employers aren't responsible for providing health care and who have limits on number of hours of work
Creating more jobs that require higher skill, provide living wages, and more time flexibility
Stress, depression, not enough to survive
Employees staying at jobs that they don't like so they can keep healthcare
More thorough searches- putting your money and resources on the starting end to find good people rather than waste training resources
Better job listings- detailing requirements
Waste of resources on new hires who don't stay
good jobs move from urban settings to suburban and take the jobs with them
All about trade offs ; how do you minimize these?