This doctoral thesis focuses on person-organization value congruence and its relation to employee engagement. The current business environment is highly competitive, volatile and very demanding which leads to circumstances where organizations need to create a working environment in which employees can demonstrate their continuous willingness to adapt and address these challenges mentioned above. This study was primarily conducted to explore the relationship between personal and organizational values (P-O fit) and work engagement together with different attitudinal and behavioral outcomes in hotel employees. Furthermore, this reserach attempts to clarify the role of work engagement in relation to organizational commitment, intention to stay and recommendation. Regresion analysis was used to test the proposed model on the data collected from a sample of participants recruited from a number of hotel organizations in Croatia. The results have indicated that P-O fit has positive, direct effects on employees' engagement, while employee engagement has a positive and direct effects on employees organizational commitment, intention to stay and readiness to recommend their organization to customers, friends and family. Employee engagement directly depends on the level of P-O fit and significantly contributes to all the above-mentioned outcomes as well. This research discusses the implications of these findings concerning the importance of value congruence for the job and organizational attitudes and behaviors, and provides suggestions for managing human resources through the processes and systems designed for retaining and motivating employees in the tourism and hotel industry.