Matching People and Jobs
Objective 8-3 Explain the meaning and importance of psychological contracts and the person-job fit in the workplace.
Given the array of individual differences that exists across people and the many different forms of employee behaviors that can occur in organizations, it stands to reason that managers would like to have a good match between people and the jobs they are performing. Two key methods for helping to understand how this match can be better understood are psychological contracts and the person-job fit.
Psychological Contracts
A psychological contract is the overall set of expectations held by employees and the organization regarding what employees will contribute to the organization and what the organization ...
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