The role of situational strength in organizational attraction: an interactionist approach

Burrus, Carla Jean

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The role of situational strength in organizational attraction: an interactionist approach

dc.contributor.advisor	Meyer, Rustin
dc.contributor.author	Burrus, Carla Jean
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Kanfer, Ruth
dc.contributor.committeeMember	James, Lawrence
dc.contributor.department	Psychology
dc.date.accessioned	2014-01-13T16:47:25Z
dc.date.available	2014-01-13T16:47:25Z
dc.date.created	2013-12
dc.date.issued	2013-10-15
dc.date.submitted	December 2013
dc.date.updated	2014-01-13T16:47:25Z
dc.description.abstract	Organizational environment (broadly conceptualized) has been shown to have an important influence on job choice (Chapman, Uggerslev, Carroll, Piasentin & Jones, 2005). Controversy exists, however, regarding how to operationalize organizational environment in a way that is both useful and parsimonious. Consistent with the perspective that situational strength meets these criteria (Meyer & Dalal, 2009), the present study found that participants were attracted to hypothetical organizations that were strong with respect to clarity, consistency, and consequences, but weak with respect to constraints. Further, individual differences in various psychological needs were shown to influence the strength of the relationship between situational strength and organizational attraction; for example, those with a high need for achievement were particularly attracted to organizations that were high with respect to consequences. These results not only contribute to the job choice literature, but also suggest that situational strength is more than just a moderator of personality-outcome relationships – it is an important psychological construct in and of itself, with its own nomological network that is worthy of continued research attention.
dc.description.degree	M.S.
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50301
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject	Situational strength
dc.subject	Organizational attraction
dc.subject.lcsh	Corporate culture
dc.subject.lcsh	Employee motivation
dc.subject.lcsh	Personality and motivation
dc.subject.lcsh	Situational awareness
dc.title	The role of situational strength in organizational attraction: an interactionist approach
dc.type	Text
dc.type.genre	Thesis
dspace.entity.type	Publication
local.contributor.corporatename	College of Sciences
local.contributor.corporatename	School of Psychology
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thesis.degree.level	Masters