A Cross-Cultural Examination of Person-Organization Fit

Treviño, Len J.; Egri, Carolyn P.; Ralston, David A.; Naoumova, Irina; Li, Yongjuan; Darder, Fidel León; de la Garza Carranza, María Teresa; Furrer, Olivier

doi:10.1007/s11575-020-00411-0

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A Cross-Cultural Examination of Person-Organization Fit : Is P-O Fit Congruent with or Contingent on Societal Values?

Université de Fribourg

Treviño, Len J. Florida Atlantic University
Egri, Carolyn P. Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Ralston, David A. University Fellows International Research Consortium
Naoumova, Irina Barney School of Business, University of Hartford
Li, Yongjuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Darder, Fidel León University of Valencia
de la Garza Carranza, María Teresa Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya
Furrer, Olivier University of Fribourg

2020

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Management International Review. - Gabler Verlag. - 2020, vol. 60, p. 287-314

Strategy and Management

Business and International Management

English Many single-country studies have examined compatibility between the individual values of the employee and organizational cultural values, typically referred to as person-organization (P-O) fit. However, little progress has been made in understanding whether P-O fit relationships generalize across countries and, if so, whether and how societal values impact this relationship. Because of this void, it is important to extend the P-O fit literature cross-culturally to explain not only how individual values relate to organizational values but also how societal values influence P-O fit relationships. Our study of 1,307 business professionals across six diverse countries focused on individualism/collectivism values at societal, organizational, and individual levels. We found that individual values are consistently congruent with organizational cultural values in individualistic societies, but found mixed results for P- O values fit in collectivistic societies. Our results provide more support for the contingency perspective (rather than the nested theory of culture) on how societal values influence P-O values fit relationships. Implications for the cross-cultural generalizability of extant P-O fit theory as well as for organizations are discussed.

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Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales et du management

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Département d'économie quantitative

Language

English

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Economics

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RERO DOC 333254
DOI 10.1007/s11575-020-00411-0

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