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The impact of expectations and values on job attitudes

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In this paper, a longitudinal field survey and a laboratory simulation were designed to test the effects of realistic expectations and value attainment on job-related attitudes and perceptions, finding that value attainment (the match between job values and job experiences) accounted for considerably more variance in facet satisfaction than did realistic expectations.
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This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Performance.The article was published on 1983-06-01. It has received 90 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Job attitude.

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Consequences of individuals' fit at work: a meta-analysis of person-job, person-organization, person-group, and person-supervisor fit

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis investigated the relationships between person-job (PJ), person-organization (PO), person group, and person-supervisor fit with pre-entry (applicant attraction, job acceptance, intent to hire, job offer) and postentry individual-level criteria (attitudes, performance, withdrawal behaviors, strain, tenure).
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Research on Employee Recruitment: So Many Studies, So Many Remaining Questions

TL;DR: In this paper, an organizing framework of the recruitment process is proposed to understand the complexity of recruitment process and the relationships among variables involved in a recruitment process, including the number of variables involved and their relationships.
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The effects of met expectations on newcomer attitudes and behaviors: a review and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: Using strict conformity with Porter and Steer's (1973) definition of met expectations, a subset of studies was identified that had nonsignificant between-studies variance for all correlations except job satisfaction and the mean correlations in these subgroups were very similar to those for the entire group.
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The phenomenology of fit: linking the person and environment to the subjective experience of person-environment fit.

TL;DR: The meaning and relationships among the atomistic, molecular, and molar approaches to fit were investigated and factors that influence the strength of these relationships were examined.
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The experience of powerlessness in organizations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define powerlessness as a lack of autonomy and participation, and argue that unexpected or undesired powerlessness can generate reactance, helplessness, and work alienation.
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A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

TL;DR: Cognitive dissonance theory links actions and attitudes as discussed by the authors, which holds that dissonance is experienced whenever one cognition that a person holds follows from the opposite of at least one other cognition that the person holds.
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Work and motivation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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How we should measure "change": Or should we?

TL;DR: In this article, the Tucker-Damarin-Messick procedure is extended to obtain more precise estimates, and an alternative to the TuckerDamarinMessick Procedure is offered, which solves research and personneldecision problems without estimation of change scores for individuals.
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