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Maintaining Fit, Adapting Quickly, or Changing Little: Personality Congruence Trajectories Among Organizational Newcomers

Year: 2025

Type: preprint

Abstract: This study examines the relationships between personality congruence—a specific form of person-organization fit—and personality change and adjustment in a large sample of 1,014 newcomers. Data were drawn from the Lifelong Learning at Work Project (LLW), a three-wave longitudinal study of newly hired employees (about 90%) in a large public administration organization. The results revealed three distinct classes of employees based on personality congruence trajectories: Fit-Maintainers, Quick Adapters, and Misaligned Changers. These classes were differentially associated with changes in personality traits and with key organizational outcomes, such as organization-based self-esteem, affective commitment, exhaustion, and depressive symptoms. Results are discussed in terms of implications for personality and socialization research and organizational practices.

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/47mnw_v1

Authors: Guido Alessandri, Donald Truxillo

Language: English

Topic: Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior

Subfield: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Decent work and economic growth

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W4414577574

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