The effects of person-organization ethical fit on employee attraction and retention: towards a testable explanatory model

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Coldwell, D., Billsberry, J., Van Meurs, N. and Marsh, P. 2008. The effects of person-organization ethical fit on employee attraction and retention: towards a testable explanatory model. Journal of Business Ethics. 78 (4), pp. 611-622. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9371-y
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TitleThe effects of person-organization ethical fit on employee attraction and retention: towards a testable explanatory model
AuthorsColdwell, D., Billsberry, J., Van Meurs, N. and Marsh, P.
Abstract

An exploratory model is presented as a heuristic to indicate how individual perceptions of corporate reputation (before joining) and corporate ethical values (after joining) generate specific individual organizational senses of fit. The paper suggests that an ethical dimension of person-organization fit may go some way in explaining superior acquisition and retention of staff by those who are attracted to specific organizations by levels of corporate social performance consonant with their ethical expectations, or who remain with them by virtue of better personal ethical fits with extant organizational ethical values. Specifically, the model suggests that individual misfits that arise from ethical expectations that either exceed or fall short of perceived organizational ethical performances lead to problematic acquisition and retention behavioural outcomes.

Keywordsethics; person-organization fit; attraction; retention; corporate social responsibility; corporate social performance
Research GroupInternational and Cross-cultural Management group
PublisherSpringer
JournalJournal of Business Ethics
ISSN0167-4544
Electronic1573-0697
Publication dates
Online05 Apr 2007
PrintApr 2008
Publication process dates
Deposited26 Oct 2009
Accepted05 Feb 2007
Submitted12 Jul 2006
Output statusPublished
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9371-y
Scopus EID2-s2.0-39749165004
Web of Science identifierWOS:000253527900008
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