Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions - Hardcover

Jon Billsberry; Amy Kristof-Brown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470683619 ISBN 13: 9780470683613

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Synopsis

An ambitious survey of the field, by an international group of scholars, that looks toward the future of person-organization fit.

• Explores how people form their impressions of fit and the impact these have on their behavior, and how companies can maximize fit
• Includes multiple perspectives on the topic of how people fit into organizations, discussing issues across the field and incorporating insights from related disciplines
• Actively encourages scholars to take part in organizational fit research, drawing on workshops and symposia held specially for this book to explore some of the creative directions that the field is taking into the future

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470683619
• ISBN 13: 9780470683613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272