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Person-organization fit and job burnout of researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Heterogeneity in eleven countries

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  • Xiao Liu
  • Cathy Ping Xie

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To manage the negative impact of job burnout for the researchers, especially during COVID-19 pandemic, is not easy. Thus, it is essential for educational institutions to provide them with the support they need to improve the person-organization (P-O) fit. Drawing upon the data from the Nature’s Global Survey initiated in 2021, this paper analyzed 2,424 effective samples from eleven countries in the world to investigate how P-O fit impacts researchers’ job burnout in different countries and their career stages during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that both organizational support and P-O fit have significantly assisted researchers in all career stages to reduce job burnout. Moreover, P-O fit has a greater inhibitory effect on job burnout than organizational support. However, when resources are relatively scarce in some developing countries, it is more important to provide organizational support for researchers. Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of organizational support and reduce researchers’ job burnout, those aspects which are less fit but helpful should be increased appropriately. Moreover, it implies that it would be significant to emphasize the differentiated and career-stage-sensitive resources and support to researchers in different countries in the post-pandemic era to improve researchers’ well-being and organizational performance.

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  • Xiao Liu & Cathy Ping Xie, 2024. "Person-organization fit and job burnout of researchers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Heterogeneity in eleven countries," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(5), pages 1-15, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0302296
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302296
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