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.

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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

Want o access your nation's values:

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:

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.