Abstract
As the emerging theory of western organizational behavior (OB), Person–Organization fit (P–O fit) recently has been a hot topic among scholars both at home and abroad, especially the effect of P–O fit on the organization. So this paper intends to explore P–O fit and organizational effectiveness literatures to investigate the interrelationships between them. We put forward the fit of fulfilling degree of employee-organization’s values as a measuring index for P–O fit and analyze how it impacts on organizational effectiveness through establishing a research model. Testify fit indices of the model by SEM method indicate that P–O fit is positively related to organizational effectiveness.
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Zhu, Q., Chen, J., Ynami, N.M., Feng, Y. (2014). An Empirical Study on the Impact of Person–Organization Fit on Organizational Effectiveness. In: Xu, J., Cruz-Machado, V., Lev, B., Nickel, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55182-6_42
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