Abstract:
This study examined the relationship between underemployment and job
satisfaction of domestic commercial bank employees. The purpose of this study
is to determine how the employees of the banking sector perceived themselves
as underemployed for the job they currently assigned and its impact on their
job satisfaction. To find the result of this study the related date was collected
by filling self-administrated questionnaires as one of the primary data
collection method by the selected population's sample of 154 employees. Of the
selected sample 131 questionnaires were completed and usable for this study.
Correlation and regression analysis was performed to test the hypothesized
relationship. Employees perceived over qualification has become an important
topic in the world of work most specifically in domestic commercial bank sector.
The research study will take a hard look by the primary reason for lack of
acceptability due to over education or underutilisation of knowledge, skill, and
abilities within the work place. Finding of the study indicated that
underemployment was negatively related to job satisfaction. For the
commercial bank sector employees in Nuwaragama area Anuradhapura
district were selected as interest of population to find the result of the study. On
the basis of these findings, managerial implications of the study and future
research direction was highlighted.
