Culture Fit vs Culture Add
A False Debate
The recent “culture fit” and “culture add” debate has been painstakingly torn apart by HR influencers, bloggers and a few highly respected professional magazines. They have argued that hiring for “culture fit” means employing clones, leading to a lack of diversity, and the better solution is to hire for “culture add.” However, the problem they’re talking about is not found in the words “fit” or “add,” but is actually found with the biases we all have and which can come through in the recruiting process; the conversation about “culture fit” versus “culture add” is ultimately a semantics issue. The bottom line is that companies need to put intention and effort into recruiting and hiring for diversity and drop this ridiculous war on the phrase “culture fit.”
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