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Person organization fit is displayed as kind of an outgrowth or an extension around person job fit. So clearly a job is nested if it's under an organization, within an organization. And so when we think about personal organization fit, we start kind of go a level up and say alright, across the organization what are the values that this organization upholds and what are perhaps the values of the individual. We can look to match between those. Same thing with organizational culture. So perhaps culture and values are the most intuitive here when we think about personalization fit, but we also concerned with the ways that jobs change, grow over time. And so to this our book lays out three different ideas. There's new job duties and so this is talking about the job that the persons hired in for but here might be things added to this job, the job might change over time. Often job descriptions will say, other duties as assigned are included in this job so it's a very broad catchall kind of idea. There's also the idea here that multiple jobs exist so this next bullet point, multiple jobs. So you know often individuals aren't hired just to do any one specific job. They might be extended into another job. You might find this within understaffed organization especially, or your book also gave the example of organizations like Pfizer, who hire for competencies and what people need right out of the gate able to do multiple jobs and so that's a good place or person organization fit, kind of takes priority. And lastly organizations think about the future jobs. Rarely is someone hired in for a single job with no hope or intention of development. Now organizations benefit by developing their employees and helping them to take on jobs with greater responsibility or more advanced skills. So all of these things contribute to the idea that a person should fit not just with the job the specific tasks of that job, but also the organization right? Is there a good match of values? Is there a good match between the way that the organization works and the way that this person likes to work?