There has been a remarkable resurgence of research in organizational socialization in the
past 5 years. In fact, there have been more published studies in this period than in any …

The authors selectively review the literature on newcomer socialization in organizational
settings and develop a social capital model of the organizational socialization process. The …

What is a committed employee? Are employees who are committed better or worse off than
employees who are uncommitted? What are the organizational advantages and …

Many practitioner-oriented publications argue that managers should be more proactive on
the job, and that proactive behavior is an increasingly important component of job …

The authors tested a model of antecedents and outcomes of newcomer adjustment using 70
unique samples of newcomers with meta-analytic and path modeling techniques …

The fundamental challenge for refining theories of communication and uncertainty is to
abandon the assumption that uncertainty will produce anxiety. To better explain processes …

In this longitudinal field study, we used self-report data provided by business school
graduates after four months and ten months on new jobs to assess (1) the effects of the six …

The purpose of the study was to examine how socialization processes (socialization tactics
and proactive behavior) jointly affect socialization content (ie, what newcomers learn) and …

One of the most popular and often studied topics in the organizational socialization literature
is Van Maanen and Schein's [Van Maanen, J., & Schein, EH (1979). Toward a theory of …

Introduction Organizational socialization is the process of moving from being an
organizational outsider who is unfamiliar with the norms, procedures, and cultute ol a new …