Team Values and Person-Team Fit
Team Values and Person-Team Fit
You can come from different backgrounds but you have to cultivate the fit in terms of shared values and goals.
You can come from different backgrounds but you have to cultivate the fit in terms of shared values and goals.
Teams values: Collectivism
- Greater levels of collectivism in groups lead to higher team performance
- Collectivistic cultures include much of Asia, the Middle East and South America
- By contrast, the United States, UK and Australia tend to be quite individualistic
Source: Bell, Journal of Applied Psychology, 2007
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Cultivate collectivism to improve team performance.
Person-team fit: perceived congruence
- Low: You don't have much in common with your coworkers, and their work ethic is very different from your own.
- Moderate: You have a good working relationship with your coworkers, but don't socialize with them outside of work. Although they are about your age, you don't have many common interests.
- High: Your coworkers are all about your age and have similar interests. You also have a good working relationship with your coworkers, often socializing together outside of work
Source: Kristof Brown et al., Journal of Applied Psychology, 2002
The more you can get team members to fit, the more benefits will outcome from the team:
- Job satisfaction
- Org commitment
- Intent to quit
- Group cohesion
- Employee performance
toward the group |supervisor |organization
Source: Kristof Brown et al., Personnel Psychology, 2005
You can come from different backgrounds but you have to cultivate the fit in terms of shared values and goals.