Journal of Applied Psychology 2018
Exploring the relative importance of normative and distinctive organizational preferences as predictors of work attitudes.
Abstract
preferences. Here, we show how these two normative and distinctive P-O fits can be differentiated and related to an individual's attitudes about their organization experience. Utilizing data from 723 participants from four samples, we show that the degree to which an individual's description of their organizational culture corresponds to the normative ideal organizational culture may account for nearly all of the large associations regularly found between overall P-O fit indices and positive workplace attitudes. In contrast, the degree of fit between an individual's work environment and their distinctive or idiosyncratic preferences may play a relatively small role in predicting the positive workplace attitudes. We discuss broader implications for the design of organizational cultures and the more general understanding of the nature of P-O fit. (PsycINFO Database Record
- DOI
- 10.1037/apl0000356
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