* Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu
** Assistant Professor, SRM School of Management, SRM University, Kancheepuram District
Online published on 27 February, 2017.
The notion of person-organization fit (P-O fit) is concerned with identifying the antecedents and consequences of compatibility between employees and the organizations in which they work, as part of interactional psychology. Literature on consequences of P-O fit has demonstrated significant relationships with various individual outcomes. The main purpose of the present study was to examine the effects of P-O fit as value congruence between the employee and the organization, on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and performance of employees working in engineering, arts and science college professors in Tamilnadu at both individual-level and cross-level analysis by utilizing multiple measures of fit. The secondary purpose was to compare multiple measures of fit in terms of their power in predicting individual outcome variables and investigate the level of association between direct and indirect fit and whether direct fit contributed to prediction over and above indirect fit measures by theengineering, arts and science college professors in Tamilnadu, India. Data was analyzed by using SPSS 17.0. Findings, suggestions and conclusions were made by keeping an eye on the objectives. However the researcher has given some valid suggestions to engineering, arts and science college professors and management in Tamilnadu. The engineering, arts and science college professors and management in Tamilnadulooks in to the deficient areas and implements the suggestion wherever it is applicable.
Person-Organization Fit, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction