PERSON-GROUP FIT: A LITERATURE REVIEW FROM 1990 TO 2024
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https://doi.org/10.32782/psy-visnyk/2025.2.34Keywords:
person–Group Fit, value Congruence, psychological safety, еmployee turnover, hybrid teams, literature reviewAbstract
Person–group fit describes the extent to which an employee’s values, competencies, and behavioral norms align with the micro-culture of the team and is increasingly viewed as a critical driver of effectiveness in today’s hybrid organizations. Yet a comprehensive synthesis of the construct’s conceptual evolution, measurement approaches, and empirical evidence has been lacking. This study addresses that gap through a literature review covering the period from 1990 to 2024. We filtered 742 records from Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar; 32 peer-reviewed empirical articles met the criteria of operationalizing person-group fit separately and assessing at least one individual or group outcome. Publication trends show exponential growth in interest, from 144 mentions in 1990 to 3,170 in 2023, mirroring organizations’ shift toward project-based and remote teams. Value congruence, relational demography, and leadership style emerge as primary antecedents of person-group fit, while job satisfaction, engagement, creativity, and reduced turnover are the most consistent outcomes. The strength of these relationships depends on psychological safety, social cohesion, knowledge sharing, national culture, and the team’s developmental stage. Research on small and medium-sized enterprises, start-ups, and virtual teams remains fragmentary, and the variety of person-group fit metrics complicates knowledge accumulation. Practical recommendations include combining value-based screening in recruitment with planned competency supplementation and continuous monitoring of psychological safety. Future studies should prioritize longitudinal multilevel designs, measurement standardization, and examinations of person-group fit in predominantly online or hybrid teams, as well as in low-resource cultural settings where hierarchy, collectivism, and leadership norms may differ markedly from Western corporate contexts.
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