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Early career professionals actively seek career advancement opportunities while undergoing socialization within their organizations. This study employs the concept of liminality to examine their experience of in-betweenness in dual socialization—simultaneous organizational socialization and vocational/organizational anticipatory socialization for the next career chapter. We conducted repeat interviews with 22 U.S. early career professionals (n = 65), employed full-time. This longitudinal study uncovers how participants construct liminality as either a planned or an emergent phase; factors contributing to their discursive tension in liminality over time; and how they communicatively manage the tension to move forward. We propose a refined model of socialization [Jablin, F. (2001). Organizational entry, assimilation, and exit. In F. Jablin & L. Putnam (Eds.), The new handbook of organizational communication (pp. 732–818). Sage], which integrates liminality as a phase in which individuals feel neither fully “in” nor “out” of their organization. This enhanced model theorizes dual socialization as dynamic and interconnected processes through permeable organizational boundaries, addressing the contemporary career landscape with an increasing number and types of employment options.
职业生涯初期的专业人员在积极寻求职业晋升机会的同时,也在其组织内经历着社会化。本研究采用了 "边缘性 "的概念来考察他们在双重社会化--同时进行的组织社会化和为下一个职业篇章而进行的职业/组织预期社会化--中的夹缝体验。我们对 22 名全职工作的美国早期职业专业人士(n = 65)进行了重复访谈。这项纵向研究揭示了参与者是如何将边缘化构建为一个计划中的或正在出现的阶段的;随着时间的推移,导致他们在边缘化中出现话语紧张的因素;以及他们是如何通过沟通管理紧张关系以向前迈进的。我们提出了一个完善的社会化模型[Jablin, F. (2001)。组织的进入、同化和退出。In F. Jablin & L. Putnam (Eds.), The new handbook of organizational communication (pp. 732-818).Sage],它将 "临界状态"(liminality)整合为个人既不完全 "融入 "也不完全 "退出 "组织的阶段。这一强化模型将双重社会化理论化为通过可渗透的组织边界进行的动态和相互关联的过程,以应对就业选择数量和类型不断增加的当代职业景观。
期刊介绍:
ACS Applied Energy Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrate knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important energy applications.