Faking to fit in: Applicants’ response strategies to match organizational culture.

We examine applicant faking as an adaptive response to the specific environment that applicants are confronted with. More specifically, we propose that applicants fake by adapting their responses to the culture of the hiring organization so that they display the personality profile that best matches the organization's culture. In other words, they fake in a targeted manner, to increase their person-organization (P-O) fit. We tested this...