Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions

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 person–organization fit by an international group of scholars who discuss both classic perspectives and newer approaches. It contains new theory built on current reviews of key topics in the field, including: dyadic, motivational, and self–regulatory views of how fit and misfit develop; temporal models of how fit changes over time; reviews of past and innovative ways of measuring fit; motivational and behavioral consequences of fit; and national culture as a context for fit relationships. The contributors incorporate lessons from fields as diverse as identity and deviance, evolutionary psychology, relationship science, and cybernetic models of self–regulation and stress before finally discussing new directions for research .

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 74 Russell E. Johnson, Meng U. Taing, Chu–Hsiang Chang, and Cristina K. Kawamoto 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 and 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.