Seeking Sustainable Development in Teams: Towards Improving Team Commitment through Person-Group Fit

Sang Hun Sung, Jee Young Seong and Yong Geun Kim
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Sang Hun Sung: Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Jee Young Seong: Department of Business Administration, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju 54896, Korea
Yong Geun Kim: Management Research Center, POSCO Research Institute, Seoul 06194, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 15, 1-15

Abstract: This study explores the sustainability of work groups in the industry by enhancing team commitment via person-group fit and its boundary conditions. Specifically, we examine the relationship between person-group (PG fit) and team commitment, introducing person-organization (PO) fit and person-supervisor (PS) fit as moderators. Using data collected from a Korean company, this study reports that a three-way interaction between PG fit, PS fit, and PO fit predicts an employee’s commitment to their team. The results highlight that PS fit can compensate for PG fit when the level of PG fit is low by stimulating team members to commit to the work team. Likewise, PG fit also plays a compensatory role for inducing team commitment when confronting poor PS fit. The results reveal that as long as PG fit is high, PO fit is more important than PS fit in enhancing team commitment. However, when PG fit is low, high PS fit with low PO fit produces a higher level of commitment to the team than low PS fit with high PO fit.

Keywords: person-group fit; person-organization fit; person-supervisor fit; team commitment; three-way interaction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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