A related possibility has been examined in studies of entry into an organization. Are employees happier if their new job has met their expectations? A met expectation was viewed in employment situations by Porter and Steers (1973) as “the discrepancy between what a person encounters on the job in the way of positive and negative experiences and what he expected to encounter” (p. 152). Confirmation of personally important expectations has been shown to be significantly associated with job satisfaction; the mean uncorrected correlation was +0.33 in a meta-analysis by Wanous, Poland, Premack, and Davis (1992).