Sg. Harris et Kw. Mossholder, THE AFFECTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF PERCEIVED CONGRUENCE WITH CULTURE DIMENSIONS DURING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION, Journal of management, 22(4), 1996, pp. 527-547
The influence of individual' congruence with an organization's culture
on their affective orientations toward the organization has been the
focus of a growing body of research. The present study contributes to
this research by examining this relationship (1) in the context of an
organization undergoing significant cultural transformation, and (2) a
cross four theoretically identified dimensions of culture. We found th
at, across all four culture dimensions, the discrepancy between indivi
duals' assessments of the current culture and their ideal culture expl
ained significant variance in two organization-focused affective outco
mes, organizational commitment and optimism about the organization's f
uture. In contrast, the congruence effects across the four culture dim
ensions were not uniformly significant for job satisfaction, job invol
vement, and job turnover intention. The implications of these findings
for future individual-culture congruence theory and research are cons
idered.