Why Job Fit Matters

• Employees who are well matched to their jobs are 2.5 times more productive on the job.
• Studies show that proper “job fit” improves employee engagement, customer service, sales, job satisfaction, resulting in increased team and personal productivity and performance, while job related stress, tension, workplace conflict, and costly employee turnover diminish.
• Organizations with a philosophy of matching people and their real behaviors to jobs and positions can get a leg-up on their competition.

A major study published by Harvard Business Review demonstrated that a key ingredient in retaining people is ensuring that they are matched to their jobs in terms of their abilities, interests, attitudes, and behaviors.

The study found that when you put people in jobs where the demands of the job matched their own abilities and behaviors, where the stimulation offered by the job matched their particular interests, and where the cultural demands of the position matched their behaviors, staff turnover decreased dramatically, and productivity increased drastically.