Fitting In Organizations: Is It Crucial for Employee Management?

Human Resource is weighed to be the most important basis of growth in the organizations. It is imperative to keep the employees engaged for their best utilization and for the same, it is crucial to align their skills, knowledge, and abilities with their assigned roles in the organization. It is since if an employee feels fit according to the culture of the organization, it leads to increase in productivity and/or reduction in employee turnover. Moreover, they will be more loyal to the organization. This paper attempts to study whether Person-Organization fit can help in better employee Management. A study was done on the teaching staff where gap between the actual atmosphere and the desired atmosphere which is required for Person-organization fit is measured and a difference between actual experience & perceived expectations was also found. So, it was concluded that the organization should try to minimize this gap to have more dedicated employees for better organizational performance.
Organizations must undergo various rapid and sudden changes that include the economic globalization, rapid utilization of information technology, competitive vigorous business environments and the like.
Thus, there is a need to understand how human resources are best organized and managed making the HR function's focus to be more strategic. There are various methods to effectively manage people in an organization like having a good selection of individuals, a better socialization, thinking of employee’s career development and the like but the most important one is to have a better fit with the organization. Here the employees will have more meaningful work, congenial work environment, and affectionate work culture taking care of employees feelings which lead to worthy relationships among humans at work. A match between the actual experience and perceived expectations was done. A negative value displayed in the graph indicates higher expectations from respondents but experiences low value in the actual experience for that category. In fact, this negative value was displayed for all the variables. In the mean table, the lowest score was observed on Job according to interest and abilities whereas highest differences were observed on Opportunities for development and Promotion. So, in conclusion, we can say that person-organization fit does not exist in the educational institute.
It has been observed that P-O fit is an important tool for effective people management and has some vital role in selection and socialization of personnel that acts as a net assest for the organization. Thus, the human resource executives should emphasize on matching the individual aspects like personality and values with that of the organization. This will bring more productivity to the organization and reduce turnover intentions of the employees. Periodic meetings should be there with the employees to know about their perception of work environment. By doing this, a better psychologically adjustment of employees with the organization will be maintained and they can then be managed very easily. P-O fit will make them more productive, more engaged towards the organization, thus leading to better organization’s performance and success.