The effect of individual-organization fit to job satisfaction: The sample of four and five star hotel in Kuşadası

Effort holds a powerful feature of sector in the hotel managements which take place in the tourism sector. The human factor is an important factor due to the fact that it is the human who both produces and presents the service. The organizations depend on the level of fit of employees into the organization at which they work, and the level of job satisfaction that they get so that they can get high productivity from these most valuable sources. The researches on the individual-organization fit show that a high level fit between individual and organizational values sets forth positive results for both employees and organizations, and employees would prefer to work at the organizations where they can can create value. On the conditions which the level of the individual-organization fit is high, high job satisfaction, decrease of employee turnover, organizational loyalty, increase in productivity, high performance, organizational behavior of citizenship can occur; on th other hand, on the conditions which the level is low, high turnover speed, low job satisfaction, low performance, absenteeism, alienation to the work, and low productivity can occur. In this study, it is the aim to determine the effect of the fit of employees who work at the four and five star hotels in Kusadasi and the organizations on the job satisfaction. It is assumed that the high level of fit between employees and the organization provide with high job satisfaction on the employees. The findings obtained as a result of the research support the works which were done before and hypotheses of the works. As a result of analyses obtained from the questionnaire technique applied to 330 employees on the research, there is a positive relationship between the individual organization fit and the job satisfaction. According to the simple regression analysis, the individual-organization fit affects the job satisfaction in a positive way. So, the job satisfaction increases while the individual-organization fit of the employees who work at the hotel managements in the area of Kusadasi increases. Keywords: Hotel, Operations, Individual Values, Organizational Values, The Fit of The Individual and Organization, Job Satisfaction.