Lee and Mitchell (1994) argued that person–organization fit occurs in advance of job satisfaction and job satisfaction creates turnover intent in an employee's mind. In a subsequent study, Lee et al. (1996) demonstrated that inconsistency between organizational and individual goals leads to higher turnover intent for nurses when they are dissatisfied with their job. Likewise, the person–organization fit of employees as organizational members has positive associations with their job satisfaction, but has negative associations with their turnover intent (Bretz and Judge, 1994 and Harris and Mossholder, 1996).