Insights from Fit Research on Navigating the Great Resignation

Abstract

We propose a symposium that showcases fit research that addresses the issues of employee attraction, engagement, and retention, in hopes of identifying new skills and strategies organizations can adopt to successfully navigate the Great Resignation. We start by investigating how experiencing how misfit during the recruitment process can actually help both employees and organizations maximize their PO fit (Sullivan and Barrick). Next, we discuss how individual differences may buffer the positive effects of hiring for fit in a group setting (Whitney and Li). Finally, we present two perspectives on the experience of misfit and explore how and why the strategies employees adopt to navigate misfit depend on how their attributional tendencies and their experience of fit overtime (Li and Zhang and Tirol-Carmody, respectively). Navigating the Great Resignation: Insights from Person-Environment Fit Research on Managing Employee Presenter: Kristina Tirol-Carmody; U. of Kansas