The Antecedents and Consequences of Person-Supervisor Fit: The Mediation and Moderation Effects
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Mau, Yan-Jie
Abstract
At the heart of this study is Person-Supervisor fit, one new field in Person-Environment fit which is quite popular in organizational behavior research nowadays. This study chooses personality similarity and demographic similarity between employees and their supervisors as its antecedent variables. This study also chooses job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and supervisor commitment as its outcome variables, hoping to research the mediation effect of Person-Supervisor fit under this model. In addition, this study proposes one new variable－Supervisor-Person fit, which is fit from supervisor’s perspective, to be the moderator between Person-Supervisor fit and outcome variables in order to make this model more complete and provide more contributions to this field.his study chooses corporations in Taiwan as the research samples in this study. We hope we can fulfill our research purpose by distributing questionnaires to supervisors and their subordinates at the same time. Finally, we distributed and received 323 samples.ased on the samples, the results show that the following hypotheses are supported: Person-Supervisor fit is the mediator between conscientiousness similarity and organizational citizenship behavior. Person-Supervisor fit is the mediator between conscientiousness similarity and supervisor commitment. Age similarity between employees and their supervisors is positively correlated with job performance. Education similarity between employees and their supervisors is positively correlated with job performance. Supervisor-Person fit moderates the relationship between Person-Supervisor fit and supervisor commitment. Consequently, the mediate effect of Person-Supervisor fit is partially supported. It explains the key position of Person-Supervisor fit in one organization.n summary, this study not only compensates the deficiencies in past research but also proposes a lot of new directions and issues to study in the future. We believe it will not only make this field develop more thoroughly and more appropriately but also be beneficial to management practices.
Subjects
Person-Supervisor Fit
Supervisor-Person Fit
personality
demographics
job performance
organizational citizenship behavior
supervisor commitment
Type
thesis
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