Thought Leadership Articles
Kenexa HR Thought Leadership™ articles are experience-driven pieces that discuss best practices in the Human Capital Management (HCM) space. These articles are written by skilled HR practitioners or technologists who initiate or provide new thinking on a specific component of HR. Kenexa HR Thought Leadership articles discuss strategies on new or existing HR topics and educate readers about future possibilities and considerations on those topics. The overall purpose of these thought leadership articles is to engage readers through original, innovative ideas that are supported by the knowledge and experience of the author.
The Role of a Person-Supervisor Fit on Employee Attitudes and Retention
By Tiffany M. Greene, Ph.D. and Lisa Wager, M.S., Kenexa
The study of person-environment fit (P-E Fit), or the relationship of people to their working environment, has long focused on the congruence between individuals and some level within the environment (e.g. the organization, the group, the vocation). While past research in this field has found a multitude of outcomes of high P-E Fit, such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction (Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman, & Johnson, 2005), or organizational citizenship behaviors (Comeau & Griffith, 2005), researchers have yet to fully inspect the influence that person-supervisor fit, or the relationship between people and their managers, could have on employees—or more specifically, the role that person-supervisor fit would have on the retention of employees.