How important is culture fit for employee retention?

Employee retention is a challenge and the turnover is very much expensive. The recruiting, which is based on sharing the values, believes, culture leads to achieve the organizational goals. Fitting the culture among the employees in the work place is one of the key aspects that leads to employee retention in an organization. As well it is very much important firstly to fit to the organizational culture. Employees should identify and understand the culture of the organization by understanding the behaviors, values, believes, of the organizational environment. Organizational culture can be developed or brought in two ways. It is either decisively defined or it can be come through the sum of believes, values, experiences, behaviors and etc. Once the organizational culture is clearly defined, it should be in action in every aspects including decisions, strategies, functions and all the HR process that includes recruiting to rewarding systems (Manisha and Upasana, 2015).  

When it comes to fitting to the culture is so important because, new recruitment does not match with the current organizational culture all the time. Once there is a mismatch between the new recruitment and the existing culture, it leads to poor quality of work, and then it leads to fail in achieving the organizational goal and it leads to employee turnover too which is so expensive (Brent, 2017). 

Reference

Brent, G. (2017) How important is culture fit for the employee retention?. Forbes [Online]. Available at https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentgleeson/2017/04/03/how-important-is-culture-fit-for-employee-retention/#7fe4aa557839. Accessed on 24th April 2019.

Manisha, R and Upasana, S. (2015) Study of organizational Culture and its impact on employee retention. International Research Journal of Management Science and Technology, 6(10), pp. 14-20.