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AN EXPLORATORY EXAMINATION OF PERSON‐ORGANIZATION FIT: ORGANIZATIONAL GOAL CONGRUENCE
Abstract
Relationships between organization members’agreement on organizational goats and their attitudes and intentions regarding the organization were investigated in this study. A constituency approach was used to operationalize the organization into meaningful units as the basis for comparison between organizational members. Specifically, the congruence between hierarchical levels (supervisor‐subordinate) and within a level (member‐constituency) was examined. Both types of congruence were hypothesized to relate positively to job satisfaction and organizational commitment and negatively to intention to quit. The hypotheses were tested using data from 356 principals and 14,721 teachers, each rating the importance of goals for their school. The results confirmed the hypotheses regarding goal congruence among members of a constituency (teachers) and between hierarchical levels (principals and teachers), with member‐constituency congruence having the greater impact on teachers’attitudes and intention to quit.
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- Authors
- VANCOUVER, J. B., & SCHMITT, N. W.
- Venue
- Personnel Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1991-06
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 333-352
- ISSN
- 0031-5826 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-6570
- OpenAlex
- W2113433486
- Cited by
- 455
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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