Hidden costs of job demands-employee working style misfit

A misfit between job demands and employee characteristics can be costly for both the employee and the organization in which he or she works. In the dissertation, the hidden costs of the mismatch between employee working style, temperament, and job demands are explored through a combination of subjective and objective measures. The work is empirical in nature and is structured into three parts. The first, theoretical, part consists of a literature review from which a theoretical model is derived. The second, empirical part consists of five studies conducted on a total of N = 429 participants. The first two studies are exploratory, while the last three are laboratory experiments in which the subjective and objective costs of job demands-employee working style misfit are explored, and the work’s nine hypotheses are tested. This part ends with a discussion of the studies’ results and recommendations for management. The third, supplementary part consists of additional details concerning the statistical analyses in the studies, and materials used.