JOURNAL OF MANAGERIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Person-Organization Fit
Since its inception, the Journal of Managerial Psychology has endeavoured to
promote a dialogue between psychologists and management scholars and between
theoreticians and practitioners. There are few areas in which the promotion
and safeguarding of a dialogue between these groups could be more fitting
than in the area of person-organization fit.
The notion of person-organization fit remains a central plank of industrial
psychology and human resource management research. Conventional selection
processes were centrally concerned with work oriented analyses and the
determination of sets of knowledge, skills and abilities required for
in-role behaviour. More recent research has sought to look beyond the job to
identify extra-role behaviour. In this way, the priority is seen to have
shifted from conventional models which are primarily based on "KSA's" for
"jobs" to hiring for organizational compatibility as manifest through a fit
between an individuals personality, beliefs and values and the
organization's espoused culture, norms and values. This transition from job
to organizational fit has brought with it new conceptual, definitional and
measurement challenges and has opened up new lines of enquiry in academic
research which this special issue seeks to showcase.
Conceptual papers, empirical papers and critical commentaries focusing on,
but not limited to, the following topics, will be considered for this
special issue:
*Definitional and measurement dilemmas in person-organization
fit.
*Stakeholders and the power dynamics of selection.
*Organization culture and person-organization fit.
*The significance of person-organization fit to job seeker or new entrant.
*Selection techniques, selection systems, selection media and
person-organization fit models.
*Anticipatory socialization and its value in achieving person-organization
fit.
*New entrant sense-making, adjustment and adaptation.
*Person-organization value and goal congruence.
*Dispositional and situational factors determining the psychological
contract, its satisfaction and/or its violation.
*Person-organization fit, job satisfaction, commitment, performance,
citizenship behaviour and turnover intentions.
As with regular issues of the Journal of Managerial Psychology, this special
issue will embrace different methodological perspectives and traditions.
Guest Editor
Michael J Morley, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Submission requirements
Submissions of 5,000-7,000 word length marked 'Journal of Managerial
Psychology Special Issue' to be submitted electronically by April 28th, 2006
to:
Michael Morley at: mailto:
michael.morley@ul.ie
For additional details please contact:
Dr Michael J Morley
Kemmy Business School
University of Limerick
National Technological Park
Limerick
Ireland
Tel: + 353 61 202273
Fax: + 353 61 202572