The Relational Fit in Organizational Interventions—What Can Organizational Research Learn from Research in Psychotherapy?

There is a growing interest in organizational interventions (OI) aiming to increase employees’ well-being. An OI involves changes the way work designed, organized, and managed. Studies have shown that an OI’s positive results are increased if there good fit between context intervention participant intervention. In this article, we propose third fit—the Relational Fit (R-Fit)—also plays important role determining intervention’s outcome. The R-Fit consists of factors related (1) employees participating OI, (2) facilitator, (3) quality relation participants facilitator. concept inspired by research psychotherapy documenting factors, therapist relations explain 40% effect We call attention importance systematically evaluating improving OIs. This enhance outcomes OIs thereby both well-being productivity employees. introduce concrete measures can be used study evaluate R-Fit. article first combine knowledge from with on