ABSTRACT
Person–organization fit in the context of alienation of workers in modern environment was explained by Karl Marx more than 150 years ago. In the traditional Western literature, person–organization fit correspond to the examination during recruitment whether a newly recruited employee would fit well with the organization. The ideal employee was of course the “right person at the right place,” executing plans developed by people hired and paid to be intelligent thinkers: management analysts and planners. Management theorists cannot see that such dramatic shifts in the factors of success require an equally dramatic shift in management philosophy and in the conception of work and the worker. The birth of industrial enterprise was marked by violence and suffering: It was a long struggle in which laws were won inch by inch and terrible clashes took place between workers and bosses to achieve slightly more just and human working conditions.
