The importance of internal fit, external fit, and employee cognitive frameworks in HRM systems

The Importance of Cognitive Fit in Mobile Information Systems

The Search for Internal and External Fit in Teams

In his essay commemorating the famous Hawthorne studies, Harold Leavitt (1975) suggested that people and organizations would be “better off” if groups, not individuals, were the basic building blocks of organizations (Hackman, 1987). Since his prophetic essay, the use of groups and teams in organizations has greatly expanded. As the focus of organizations shifted toward quality, innovation, and...

The Buzzword: Employee Engagement. Does Person-Organization Fit Contribute to Employee Engagement?

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between person-organization value fit and employee engagement, as well as to develop a new scale for measuring organizational engagement. We considered person-organization fit with a degree of similarity between personal values and organizational values. These values were measured by the Organizational Culture Profile (OCP). We divided employee e...

External Representations for Data Distributions: in Search of Cognitive Fit

Data distributions can be represented using different external representations, such as histograms and boxplots. Although the role of external representations has been extensively studied in mathematics, this is less the case in statistics. This study helps to fill this gap by systematically varying the representation that accompanies a task between participants, and assessing how university st...

The Importance of Strategic Fit

One of the issues of importance raised by members of the Henley Knowledge Management Forum when it was launched in June 2000 was that of knowledge management (KM) strategy. A working group co-championed by the authors was set up and started deliberations on the topic at the second Forum meeting in October 2002. The main aims of the project were to highlight the nature of different organizations...