HRM 4430 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 - Career as Fit

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 4430
• Professor: Soosan Latham

Document Summary

The fitting peoploe to jobs tradition requires good description and measurementof both personal and contextual characteristics. Assumptions of fit: people are different as are careers, each occupation has its own characteristics, fit establishes a degree of congruency between person and job but, characteristics of occupation changes, people change, fit may disappear. Personality > measures may say more about the style people bring to their work than about the kind of work they do. Twa: continuous and dynamic process by which a worker seeks to achieve and maintain correspondence with a work environment: the satsifaction they gain from the environment, the satisfactoriniess of their behaviour within that environment. Being satisfied with the work one does. The extent to which one(cid:495)s needs are fulfilled: other(cid:495)s satisfaction with the work one does, the extent to which others appraise one(cid:495)s work as adequate. Abilities person(cid:495)s capacities and aptitudes relevant to specific skills that may be required to do a job.