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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Person-Environment Fit"”.
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Stress For Superintendents In The Midwest Viewed Through The Lens Of Person-Environment Fit
… This study investigated the alignment between personal and environmental factors and stress management of superintendents. Understanding the relationship between personal and environmental factors and superintendent stress, specifically the ability to predict this stress by evaluating the …
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The Relationship between Person-Environment Fit and Employment Outcomes in Part-Time Adjunct Faculty
… for the development of adjuncts’ perceived person-environment (PE) fit to form the basis for recommendations for improving the outcomes of job performance, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment at a small college in the northeast. Correlation analyses of a convenience sample …
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Exploration and Development of Methodology for Accessibility Assessments: Based on the Notion of Person-Environment Fit
… population health, it is important to create environments that support activity, participation and health. One crucial aspect concerns the degree to which the built environment is accessible for all people including those with reduced functional capacity. The overarching objective of this …
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The Impact Of The External Environment On Person-Environment Fit In The Selection Of New Housing Professionals
… of this study was to examine the concept of "fit" with housing/residence life professionals at colleges and universities using Werbel and Gilliland's (1999) framework/ model of describing person-environment fit and then determine how/if this fit may be impacted by individual or institutional …
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Person-environment fit: Needs and challenges in Antarctica : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… more general category of Isolated and Confined Environments (ICEs). Drawing from an organisational psychology approach that considers the interaction between an individual’s and an environment’s characteristics, the present research applies the Person-Environment fit (P-E fit) theory to ICEs. …
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Getting A's in B-School: Do Conservatism and Conventional Ambition Predict Higher GPA?
… than intelligence and effort. According to the Person-Environment fit literature, when individuals have similar values to the organizations they inhabit, they perform better. Moreover, the same literature claims that individuals' performance will also improve when their needs are well-satisfied …
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Misfit Between Motivational Style and Type of Job Demand as a Factor in Developing Occupational Stress
… between the individual worker and the work environment. The purpose of the study was to analyze the fit between motivational style and the type of job demands as a contributing factor in developing occupational stress symptoms. A literature review of occupational stress models was conducted. …
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An Assessment of Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction and Semantic Descriptors of Virginia Acute and Tertiary Care Hospitals' Chief Executive Officers
… that investigated four major areas: (1) personal and hospital demographics; (2) self rated performance; (3) a semantic scale measuring the concept of Hospital CEO; and (4) The Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire. A survey was mailed to 119 CEO's. The response rate was 50%. The mean age …
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Personally satisfying: Using Personal Style Scales to enhance the prediction of career satisfaction
… continues the long line of research addressing Person-Environment fit started by Frank Parsons a century ago and the construct of career satisfaction. Previous research emphasized Holland themes and specific occupational scales, with this study being the first to evaluate the higher order of …
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Horticulture Therapy for Persons with Dementia; Effects on Engagement and Affect
… Therapy (HT) and therapeutic activities for persons with dementia using the theory of environmental press Utilizing horticulture as a treatment modality, the therapist can either modify the environment or the person's competence level or both to assist persons to reach the desired Adaptation …
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Does The Leader Fit The Place? Examining Leader-Culture Fit And Its Implications For Leader Effectiveness
… on a relatively new concept, Leader-Culture Fit (L-C Fit), to help bridge the empirical gap that exists between the literatures on leadership and organizational culture. L-C Fit, a subtype of Person-Environment fit, was examined here by testing the complex relationships between perceptions of …
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Biodata: A Thing of the Past? Examining the Predictibe Validity and User Reactions of Rationally-Selected, Empirically Keyed Biodata
… ability and conscientiousness. Drawing from Person-Environment fit theory (Kristof, 1996), I argued that biodata developed in this manner would be rated more favorably than measures of cognitive ability and conscientiousness due to the job-specific nature of the internally developed …
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FOCES: An experimental expert system to select appropriate foster care homes for children
… difficulties associated with defining a good "person-environment fit", and the volatile, free-form narrative nature of the information maintained by social services agencies about children and homes. "Traditional" approaches to knowledge acquisition and representation adopted by developers of …
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Er fjarvinna komin til að vera? : hefur COVID-19 haft áhrif á samskiptaform og fyrirtækjamenningu í viðskiptaheiminum, sem eru líklega til að verða varanleg?
… sem tóku þátt. Persónuaðlögunarkenningin (e. Person-Environment fit eða P-E fit) var notuð til stuðnings við gerð rannsóknarinnar. Rannsóknin leitast við að svara rannsóknarspurningunni “Hefur COVID-19 haft áhrif á samskiptaform og fyrirtækjamenningu í viðskiptaheiminum, sem eru líklega til að …
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A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach to the generalized graded unfolding model estimation: the future of non-cognitive measurement
… educational and clinical decision-making, personnel selection, and managerial practices. Previous research has concluded that ideal point item response theory (IRT) models are more appropriate than dominance IRT models for measuring non-cognitive variables such as personality, vocational …
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Influence of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Invitations to Interview for Pharmacy Postgraduate Year One Residencies: A National Survey of Residency Program Directors
… of pharmacy supporting these students. Utilizing person-environment fit as a conceptual framework, the purpose of this study was to determine how PGY1 residency program directors perceive the desirability and necessity of factors related to advanced pharmacy practice experiences (APPEs) when …
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Examining the role of the university environment, cultural congruity, social support, and self-efficacy on the academic persistence of black students attending predominantly white institutions and historically black colleges or universities
… REQUEST.] The present study incorporated the person-environment fit theory (PE Fit; Lewin, 1938; Parsons, 1909), retention and attrition theories (Bean, 1980; Tinto, 1975), and social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent, Brown, and Hackett, 1994) to examine academic persistence intentions …
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