Person–Skill Fit: Why a New Form of Employee Fit Is Required
提出人-技能匹配概念模型,解释个体、工作和组织因素如何与多样化工作环境互动,帮助管理者应对工作性质变化,实现动态调整。
Significant recent changes in labor affect organizations, managers, and employees; however, we do not yet fully understand the depth and scope of these changes. Although previous research on person–job and person–organization fit is helpful, it has struggled to provide clarity when the very nature of work and jobs is changing and new types of work are emerging. To contribute to the literature on person–job and person–organization fit, this paper proposes a conceptual model that explains the ways in which individual, job and organizational factors interact with diverse work environments. Specifically, we show that a new work environment generates a new form of employee fit, which we call person–skill fit. We argue that changes in the constructs that contribute to employee fit (e.g., competencies, trust, commitment and values) may generate a fit gap that manifests in the form of a managerial gap. Firms should address this gap to improve their dynamic alignment with new forms of work. This framework offers potentially valuable new ways of assisting managers and organizations in their efforts to adjust to the changing nature of work and to transition from standard management practices to new management practices to achieve improved outcomes by utilizing the person–skill fit model.