Other Types of Fit
It's worth pointing out that in addition to the person organization and person job fit models that your book outlines. There are other types that are often researched and evaluated in organizations. So one is person vocation fit and this might sound like person job it and indeed it's similar but it's a bit different. So person job fit gets at how well you fit with that specific job. So this would be an accountant working at a KPMG office in Dallas, Texas for a specific boss. It's all specific to this job. Person vocation fit is just how well do you fit to the vocation or occupation of accountancy. So that's person vocation fit. It's broader than person job fit. There's also person supervisor fit and person group fit both of which I think are pretty self-explanatory right? Person group fit would be your workgroups specifically. All of these fits, the three on this slide, the two that we already covered, they are examples of just person environment fit broadly, something known as PE fit. And the definition here from a major meta-analysis I'm going share a bit more about what a meta-analysis is and some details of this link study here or this cited study here. But person environment fit is simply the compatibility between individual in a work environment, again there's different kind of levels, different ways you can think about the environment, that occurs when their characteristics are well matched okay. So next slide we'll go ahead and think through how different types of fit relate differently to outcomes.