Skill mismatch among instructors across the Technical and Vocational Education Tarining (TVET) institutions in Malaysia: the incidences, the determinants and the outcomes

Khairul Anuar Hasnan

Abstract

The aims of this research are to identify the incidence and outcomes of overskilling among instructors at Vocational College in Malaysia. Three outcomes were explored: earnings, job satisfaction and quit intention. Overskilling was measured based upon workers’ own assessment technique. Using google form survey platform, a total of 250 instructors were randomly involved for the survey. It was found that around 57% of the respondents were deemed overskilled; 30% were moderately and 13% were severely overskilled. Overskiling was higher for females than for males whereas well-matched was overrepresented in the males’ sample. Contrast to other studies,Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method revealed that there was evident that overskilling, especially severe overskilling resulted in higherearnings premium than their well-matched workers. The same technique also revealed that severely-overskilled workers led to a lower job dissatisfaction with respect to work condition, training opportunities, promotion prospect and work flexibility. Yet, there was lack of evidence with respect to the effect of overskilling on quit intention. Positive impact of severe overskilling on earnings may be due to public sector has better pay scheme. However, once workers are ended in overskilling jobs, they might not feel satisfied about certain dimension of their job dimension. This however does not lead to quit intention as public sector is perceived as secure and more benefits than private sector.

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