Organizational Fit : Key Issues and New Directions
ISBN: 9780470683613 | 0470683619
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 1/29/2013
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Empirical research shows that individuals and organizations are most effective when their values, needs, and interests are aligned. This alignment greatly impacts employee commitment, satisfaction and retention, organizational performance, and individual health. The business reality is that person-organization fit - often manifested in feelings of being 'at home or 'out of place in a company - directly affects organizational and individual effectiveness. Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions is an ambitious survey of the field of pe... MORE
About the Editors ix
About the Contributors xi
Preface xix
1 Fit for the Future 1
Amy L. Kristof-Brown and Jon Billsberry
Part 1: New Directions within the Fit Paradigms
2 A Motivational Model of Person–Environment Fit: Psychological Motives as Drivers of Change 21
Kang Yang Trevor Yu
3 Dyadic Fit and the Process of Organizational Socialization 50
John D. Kammeyer-Mueller, Pauline Schilpzand,
and Alex L. Rubenstein
4 A Self-Regulation Approach to Person–Environment Fit ... MORE
5 Person–Organization Fit, Organizational Citizenship and Social-Cognitive Motivational Mechanisms 99
Christian J. Resick, Tomas R. Giberson, Marcus W. Dickson, Kevin T. Wynne, and Linda M. Bajdo
6 Mapping Fit: Maximizing Idiographic and Nomothetic Benefits 124
Jon Billsberry, Danielle L. Talbot, and V´eronique Ambrosini
Part 2: New Directions for the Fit Paradigms
7 The Construal of Person–Organization Fit during the ASA Stages: Content, Source, and Focus of Comparison 145
Annelies E. M. Van Vianen, J. W. Stoelhorst, and Marije E. E. De Goede
8 Exploring the Middle Range of Person–Environment Fit Theories through a Conservation of Resources Perspective 170
Anthony R. Wheeler, Jonathon R. B. Halbesleben, and Kristen Shanine
9 A Review and Agenda for Incorporating Time in Fit Research 195
Karen J. Jansen and Abbie J. Shipp
10 Fitting Person–Environment Fit Theories into a National Cultural Context 222
Yih-teen Lee and Aarti Ramaswami
Index 000
Amy L. Kristof-Brown is the Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Management at the University of Iowa. She is a Fellow of the Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology (SIOP) and has served as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Psychology. She has published extensively in both psychology and management journals.
Jon Billsberry is Professor of Management at Deakin University. He is the Chair of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management, a past Chair of the Organizational Psychology track of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and Editor of the Journal of Management Education. He has published six books and articles in various psychology and management journals.
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