A Cross-Cultural Examination of Person-Organization Fit : Is P-O Fit Congruent with or Contingent on Societal Values?
Université de Fribourg
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Treviño, Len J.
Florida Atlantic University
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Egri, Carolyn P.
Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
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Ralston, David A.
University Fellows International Research Consortium
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Naoumova, Irina
Barney School of Business, University of Hartford
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Li, Yongjuan
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Darder, Fidel León
University of Valencia
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de la Garza Carranza, María Teresa
Instituto Tecnológico de Celaya
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Furrer, Olivier
University of Fribourg
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- Management International Review. - Gabler Verlag. - 2020, vol. 60, p. 287-314
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
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Economics
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https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/299489
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