CONSEQUENCES OF INDIVIDUALS' FIT AT WORK: A META‐ANALYSIS OF PERSON–JOB, PERSON–ORGANIZATION, PERSON–GROUP, AND PERSON–SUPERVISOR FIT
2005/05/09 by AMY L. KRISTOF‐BROWN, Amy L. Kristof‐Brown, Ryan D. Zimmerman +3 · 5,227 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Applied psychology #Credibility #Developmental psychology #Employer Branding and e-HRM #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Generalizability theory #Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior #Job performance #Job satisfaction #Management #Meta-analysis #Person–environment fit #Psychology #Social psychology #Supervisor
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1744-6570.2005.00672.x
published in Personnel Psychology 58(2), 281-342 (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2005/05/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract
This meta‐analysis investigated the relationships between person–job (PJ), person–organization (PO), person–group, and person–supervisor fit with preentry (applicant attraction, job acceptance, intent to hire, job offer) and postentry individual‐level criteria (attitudes, performance, withdrawal behaviors, strain, tenure). A search of published articles, conference presentations, dissertations, and working papers yielded 172 usable studies with 836 effect sizes. Nearly all of the credibility intervals did not include 0, indicating the broad generalizability of the relationships across situations. Various ways in which fit was conceptualized and measured, as well as issues of study design, were examined as moderators to these relationships in studies of PJ and PO fit. Interrelationships between the various types of fit are also meta‐analyzed. 25 studies using polynomial regression as an analytic technique are reviewed separately, because of their unique approach to assessing fit. Broad themes emerging from the results are discussed to generate the implications for future research on fit.
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