Abstract

Person-Organization fit can influence person's attitude and behavior toward organization as well as organizational outcome. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of P-O fit in personality type on person's attitude and behavior toward organization. More specifically, this study hypothesized that the higher level of P-0 fit in personality type predicted higher level of crust and lower level of distrust toward organization, lower intention of retaliation toward organization and turnover, and more organizational citizenship behaviors. The Organizational Personality Type Indicator<OPTI) developed by Yoo(1999) was used to measure the type of organizational personality and some items from Myers-Briggs Type lndicator<MBTI) were used to measure the type of individual personality. Questionnaires were administered to 397 job incumbents to obtain the personality type of both individual and organization and attitudinal and behavioral variables toward organization, the P-O fit level was obtained from the match of personality type in each of four dimensions: Extraversion- Introversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The results indicated that the P-O fit level in personality type was negatively related to the level of distrust, intention of retaliation toward organization and turnover, and was positively related to the organizational citizenship behaviors. But, there was no statisticaliy significant relation between the P-O fit and trust toward organization. Among the four dimensions, the match of personality type in Extraversion-Introversion dimension was most strongly related organizational members's attitude and behavior toward organization. Based on these findings, the usablity of the OPTI for measuring organizational personality type, future research tasks, and implications and limitations of this study were discussed.