Fits about fit

The paper argues that two traditions have dominated research on person-envi ronment fit, the individual differences tradition and the organisational ps ychology tradition. I briefly review these traditions using the present set of papers as exemplars of these traditions. Then the inclusion of national cultural issues in person-environment fit research, stimulated by two pape rs in this issue, is introduced and I suggest that this should be the start of a new tradition. Finally, I note that there has been little conceptuali sation of, and research on, the environment in person-environment research. This is especially true with regard to the role of people in making enviro nments, and environmental effectiveness outcomes for person-environment fit . I conclude with the thought that fits over fit are healthy because fit is usefully conceptualised and operationalised from so many different interes ting perspectives.