THE AFFECTIVE IMPLICATIONS OF PERCEIVED CONGRUENCE WITH CULTURE DIMENSIONS DURING ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION

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.