The main question is about concepts of "person-organization fit" and "personal and organizational values congruence". Why we use "values congruence" but not "values fit"?
I have problems with these definitions and its' translations in Lithuanian language so I'm thinking about the justifications of those two concepts and use of terminology.
When we use "congruent" in this way, it is a metaphor. In geometry, when two things are congruent, they are identical and match each other perfectly when superimposed. But when two things "fit" together, they connect well with each other, but they are probably not identical because it is only where they connect together that they must match.
In the way you were using the words, values that are "congruent" means that our personal values and the values of the organization are identical. "Fit" means that the personal and organizational values may not be exactly the same, but they align or match well and do not oppose or contradict each other.
When we use "congruent" in this way, it is a metaphor. In geometry, when two things are congruent, they are identical and match each other perfectly when superimposed. But when two things "fit" together, they connect well with each other, but they are probably not identical because it is only where they connect together that they must match.
In the way you were using the words, values that are "congruent" means that our personal values and the values of the organization are identical. "Fit" means that the personal and organizational values may not be exactly the same, but they align or match well and do not oppose or contradict each other.
Dear Michael,
Thank you for your response.
I know about the mean of "congruence" in geometry, but then, why person and organization can just "fit", but values should "be congruent"? And then I rise a question, is it possible, that values of personal and values of organization could be identical (congruent)...?
Evelina,
In this context, "fit" does not mean "identical."
For example, the background and experience of someone applying for a job may be a "good fit" with the organization...but maybe the reason is that the person has background and experience that the organization does not have and needs.
On the other hand, of they do not share the same values (congruent values) then it may NOT be a good fit.
An example that comes to mind for me is an organization I know of called the "Society of Professional Journalists" (SPJ). In order to join the organization, you must agree to conform to their "code of ethics." I think that this is a case in which the values are congruent, because values are "actions based on ethics."
Evelina
We could "at large" say that an entity is fit after having been congruent with another.that is congruence is dynamic while fitness can be regarded as static.
Fit is somthig on Your size, congruence represent quit an human counsiusness because it implies a personal and continus effort
About congruence
Congruence in Linguistics.
Two languages are related if..they were once one language... The word congruence in application to parts of two related languages is to be understood in precisely the sense in which the word relationship is applied..to the two languages themselves. Thus, English stone and German stein are congruent because..they were both one word in..Primitive Germanic.
Congruence in projective geometry
A double infinite number of lines, that is, all lines which satisfy two conditions, or which are common to two complexes, are said to form a congruence of lines, e.g. all lines in a plane, or all lines cutting two curves, or all lines cutting a given curve twice..It follows that all lines in which corresponding planes in two projective pencils meet form a congruence. -
Congruence in Number Theory.
The relation between two numbers which being divided by a third number, called the modulus, give the same remainder; also an expression exhibiting two congruous quantities in the form of an equation; thus, A ≡ B (mod. P).
A congruence may be of any order, linear, quadratic, or other. The general type of a linear congruence is ax + b ≡ 0 (mod. P), where a, b, and P are given numbers, and x a number to be determined.
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