A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Fit for functional differentiation: new directions for personnel management and organizational change bridging the fit theory and social systems theory
Authors: Sales Augusto, Mansur Juliana, Roth Steffen
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publishing place: Bingley
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Journal of Organizational Change Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JOCM-03-2022-0061
This conceptual paper seeks to bridge two existing theories in a bid to broaden our analytical scope when studying the process of onboarding, retention and exclusion of organizational members. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. The authors draw on the social systems theory to advance the fit theory demonstrating the pertinence of macro social factors for the determination of person–organization (P–O) fit. The result of this conceptual groundwork is a framework for the creation of highly individual personal profiles that refrains from analyses of potentially discriminatory factors like age, race or gender. The authors present an individualized, multidimensional and flexible framework for the analysis of dynamically changing constellations of P–O fit.