As a strategy for coping with perceived job insecurity in the workplace, some employees will suppress their personal values and pretend to embrace organisational values. While this response can be unconscious, this timely research finds that the conscious effort to better 'fit in' via inauthentic expression, can become taxing and threaten employees' commitment to their organisation.

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