Although recruitment and perceptions of fit are inherently social-as they reflect the interactions between applicants and recruiting firms-applicants' social networks during recruitment can exert both positive and potentially negative consequences for subsequent applicant perceptions and behaviors. In this study, we examine the role of applicants' friends' perceptions of fit with the same recruiting organizations. Integrating ideas from social information processing theory and the person-organization (P-O) fit literature, we argue that friends' P-O fit perceptions drive social learning and social influence processes for applicants, thus predicting applicant perceptions and behaviors toward recruiting firms. In addition, we posit that the direct and indirect relationships between friends' P-O fit perceptions and applicants' own fit perceptions and job choices with recruiting firms are further strengthened by how centrally connected applicants are within their friend networks. Using a sample of 576 applicant-firm observations from 178 job applicants, we found that friends' P-O fit perceptions are positively related to applicant P-O fit perceptions and job choice decisions. Furthermore, applicants' position in their network-assessed via applicants' outdegree centrality within their friend group-strengthened the relationship between friends' P-O fit and applicant P-O fit as well as with their job choice decisions. Our research provides important theoretical and empirical findings on the influence of applicants' friends during recruitment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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朋友的人组织契合度对招聘的影响。


尽管招聘和合适感本质上是社会性的——因为它们反映了申请人和招聘公司之间的互动——但申请人在招聘过程中的社交网络可以对随后的申请人的看法和行为产生积极和潜在的消极影响。在这项研究中，我们研究了申请人的朋友对同一招聘组织的适合度的看法。结合社会信息处理理论和个人与组织（PO）契合度文献的思想，我们认为朋友的 PO 契合度认知推动了求职者的社会学习和社会影响过程，从而预测了求职者对招聘公司的认知和行为。此外，我们假设，朋友的 PO 适合度认知与求职者自身的适合度认知以及招聘公司的工作选择之间的直接和间接关系会因求职者在其朋友网络中的集中联系而得到进一步加强。通过对 178 名求职者的 576 个求职者-公司观察进行样本分析，我们发现朋友的 PO 适合度认知与求职者 PO 适合度认知和工作选择决策呈正相关。此外，申请人在其网络中的位置（通过申请人在其朋友群体中的出度中心性进行评估）加强了朋友的 PO 适合度和申请人的 PO 适合度以及他们的工作选择决定之间的关系。我们的研究为求职者朋友在招聘过程中的影响提供了重要的理论和实证结果。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。