The Impact of Training on the Relationship between the Person-Job Fit and Employees' Job Engagement

Abstract

The study aimed to examine the relationship between person- job fit and the organizational engagement and identify the role of the training process in improving the impact of the person- job fit on organizational engagement. A questionnaire-based survey was designed to test the study hypotheses based on a data set of 127 employees working in Irbid Specialized Hospital in Jordan. In order to analyze the data collected, the study relies on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) where the descriptive statistics for all the fields of the study were estimated by extracting the means and standard deviations. The correlation matrix was also used to determine the relationship between variables. Furthermore, multiple regressions were used to determine the impact of the independent variable on the dependent variable. To estimate the moderating role played by the training process, the researchers create a new model that accounts for the effect of the interaction term between person-job fit and training process on organization engagement. The analysis of the data has revealed that person-job fit positively and significantly related to organizational engagement. Furthermore, the research data has also indicated that the training process, as a Moderating Variable, had a meaningful role in improving the relationship between person-job fit and organizational engagement.