Job Compatibility Correlates Of Resident Assistant Work Behavior

This research was conducted with a sample of Resident Assistants on a mid-sized university campus to further understanding and application of the Person-Job (P-J) fit approach to personnel selection. In this study I sought to examine the validity of a forced choice measure of P-J fit in predicting worker behavior. To approach this goal, this project involved creating a forced-choice job compatibility measure and administering the device to the worker sample to investigate employee job satisfaction, performance and contract renewal. Specifically, the hypotheses that job compatibility scores would correlate positively with job satisfaction, supervisory- and customer-based performance evaluations, and actual contract renewal were tested. In addition, I tested the validity of a personality measure capable of representing the "Big Five" personality dimensions and a profile comparison device used to predict job satisfaction, supervisory- and customer-based performance ratings as well as contract renewal over that described by the forced choice measure alone.