Book chapter
Issues of Person−Organization Fit
Perspectives on Organizational Fit
Organizational frontiers series, Psychology Press
06/15/2007
Abstract
In 1957 Chris Argyris proposed that organizations were characterized by particular types of climates and that these climates played an important role in the attraction and selection of organizational members. His view, that companies hire people who are the "right types," reflects the notion of differential compatibility between organizations and individuals. In 1987 Benjamin Schneider elaborated on these ideas, in what has become one of the most popular theories of interactional psychology-the attractionselection-attrition (ASA) framework. At its core, the ASA framework proposes that the three aforementioned processes result in organizations characterized by homogeneity and structures, systems, and processes that reflect the characteristics of the people who "make the place." Although principally concerned with predicting organizational-level outcomes and characteristics, the ASA framework has become the theoretical cornerstone for research on the concept of person-organization (PO) fit.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Issues of Person−Organization Fit
- Creators
- Amy L Kristof-Brown - University of Iowa, Bus Admin CollegeKaren J. Jansen - Pennsylvania State University
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Perspectives on Organizational Fit
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Series
- Organizational frontiers series
- ISBN
- 080585195X; 9780805851953
- eISBN
- 9781136679216; 1136679219
- Number of pages
- 471 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/15/2007
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship ; Bus Admin College
- Record Identifier
- 9984380475002771
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