Organizational Fit (eBook)

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.

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

If this volume is an indication of the next generation of fit
research, then we're in for an exciting ride! The authors
represent a wide variety of viewpoints on fit, and provide relevant
suggestions on how research in this domain can continue to
thrive.--Dan Cable, Professor of Organisational
Behaviour, London Business School

This book represents a fine compendium of thinking about what
fit is, the motivations of people to seek it, the antecedents of
achieving it, and the consequences of having--and not having
it--at work. The consequences, indeed, extend to performance
of the individual and the organizations in which people work. The
chapters offer a broad range of insights into the fit process and
contain many useful suggestions for--indeed pleas
for--future research efforts on this important psychological
phenomenon.--Benjamin Schneider, Senior Research
Fellow, CEB Valtera, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland

The idea of "fit" is central to every aspect of
every employees' worklife. An employee who says to her
or himself, "I just don't fit in here" is
expressing a view that s/he would prefer to be somewhere
else. In other words, working in an organization that does
not fit can be like wearing a shoe size that does not fit;
it's great to get out of. In this situation, it is most
pleasing to see publication of a volume that offers such a wide
range of different views on the topic of fit. An especial
strength of the volume is that it is not restricted to one
epistemological view, thus enabling a broader coverage of the field
than has been the case in the literature to date. Thus, while
readers might not agree with the views of one particular
chapter's authors, there is sure to be at least one other
model or perspective with which they will feel comfortable.
As such, and as is reflected in the title, this is a volume for the
future of research in this field. I have little doubt that it
will serve to generate a surge of interest in the concept and
importance of fit in organizational research.--Neal
Ashkenasy, Professor of Management at the University of
Queensland and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational
Behavior.

This book pushes the boundaries of research and thinking
research about fit in organizations. Throughout the chapters,
the authors tackle a broad array of underexplored topics, and in
doing so, provide new understanding about the process of how people
fit into organizations. Anyone interested in fit will want to
read this book.--Cheri Ostroff, full professor of
industrial/organizational psychology, University of Maryland