Relationship between Person-Organization Fit and Job Satisfaction:Mediating Role of Need Satisfaction

The purpose of this study was to explain the relationship of person-organization fit with job satisfaction of Nurses and to know the mediating role of need satisfaction in this relationship. The sample consisted of 400 Nurses as participants selected from different government and private hospitals. Person-organization fit of nurses was measured with the most commonly used items of P-O Fit scale (Cable & Judge, 1996). Job satisfaction was measured through Job descriptive index developed by Smith Kendall and Hulin (1969). Need satisfaction was measured by Need satisfaction at work Scale (Deci & Ryan, 2001). Results indicated that p-o fit of nurses was positively correlated with and significantly predicted the job satisfaction. It was also found that need satisfaction partially mediate this relationship between p-o fit and job satisfaction.