Culture Fit versus Culture Add: Hiring for Departmental Growth
Michigan Union 530 S. State St, Ann Arbor, MIThe idea of “culture fit” is an often implicit criterion for many departmental hiring committees, in which decisions are influenced by perceptions that a candidate’s area of scholarship aligns well with currently represented scholarship, or that the person will simply “fit in” easily to the department. However, a “culture add” approach to hiring emphasizes the […]