Amy L. Kristof-Brown, Jon Billsberry

Organizational Fit

Key Issues and New Directions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Individuals and organizations are most effective when their values, needs, and interests are aligned. Person-organization fit directly affect organizational and individual effectiveness. Organizational Fit surveys the field of person-organization fit, discussing both classic perspectives and newer approaches. Covering topics such as how fit and misfit develop, how fit changes over time, how fit influences motivation, and the effect of cultural factors, contributors to this book integrate these ideas with concepts from related fields and discuss new directions for research.

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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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 174mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780470683613
• ISBN-10: 0470683619
• Artikelnr.: 35259715

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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