Person–organization fit and its effect on work engagement of employees through building organizational trust (Case study: A military organization)

One of the issues of today's organizations is the lack of engagement of employees in work. The present study was aimed to investigate the effect of perceived person–organization fit on work engagement with mediating role of organizational trust. This study is a practical research from purpose view and is a descriptive-correlation one from research methodology perspective. The statistical population of this study includes the employees of a military organization. The sample size has been calculated through Cochran formula and a sample of 176 employees has been selected through random classification method. In order to collect the research data three standard questionnaire have been used: The person–organization fit, organizational trust and work engagement, that reliability has been checked through Cronbach's alpha and validity has been checked through the Content Validity and Structural validity. Data were analyzed through independent-sample T test, one-way ANOVA and structural equation modeling with Smart-PLS and SPSS software. The results of this study revealed that person–organization fit influences organizational trust and work engagement significantly (with path coefficients of 0.778 and 0.366). Also person–organization fit effects on work engagement with mediating role of organizational trust.