How National Culture Influences Fit

In the business world, there’s a lot of talk about “fit.” “He failed to ‘fit’ into the corporate culture,” they might say, or “Yes, he ‘fits’ in well.” Despite so much conservation, little is known about how national culture affects this buzzword. For example, will a Taiwanese employee ‘fit’ better into a certain work environment than, say, a German? In the award-winning paper “Satisfaction With Organizational Structuring: Does Fit Depend on Where One’s From?” IESE Professor Yih-Teen Lee and Prof. John Antonakis explain why “power distance” makes it imperative that multinational firms take a close look at local values.

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