New Horizons for Newcomer Organizational Socialization: A Review, Meta-Analysis, and Future Research Directions

IF 9.3 1区管理学 Q1 BUSINESS

Journal of Management Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI:10.1177/01492063241277168

Talya N. Bauer, Berrin Erdogan, Allison M. Ellis, Donald M. Truxillo, Grant M. Brady, Todd Bodner

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Abstract

The effective socialization of newcomers into organizations is critical for employee and organizational success. As such, ensuring successful onboarding has become even more pivotal for newcomer adjustment, performance, and retention. The literature has seen significant growth and incorporated new theoretical perspectives, such as resource-based approaches since the most recent comprehensive meta-analytic review of the literature. Therefore, we extended earlier reviews by presenting an updated model of the socialization process, reviewing the literature, and examining this updated model via meta-analysis. In all, we identified 256 studies that met our meta-analytic inclusion criteria, and 183 with sufficient k across construct categories were included in our meta-analysis. At the correlational level, we analyzed antecedents to proximal adjustment indicators and proximal adjustment to distal outcomes. We examined a potential moderator, whether the study took place in a horizontal-individualistic (HI) versus vertical-collectivistic (VC) culture. Last, we analyzed a path model to identify unique relationships between specific antecedents (age, full-time work experience, organizational tenure, proactive personality, information seeking, organizational tactics, insider mentoring/supporting), proximal adjustment indicators (social acceptance, role clarity, task mastery, perceived fit), and distal outcomes (job satisfaction, organizational commitment, turnover intentions, other-rated performance, and well-being). Our analyses uncover the role of proactive personality and proactive newcomer behaviors in newcomer adjustment and the importance of social acceptance for newcomers. They also identify perceptions of fit as an important but relatively under-examined adjustment indicator and newcomer well-being as an additional socialization outcome. We develop future directions for socialization theory and research methods.

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新人组织社会化的新视野：综述、元分析和未来研究方向

让新人有效融入组织对于员工和组织的成功至关重要。因此，确保成功的入职对于新人的适应、绩效和留任变得更加重要。自最近一次对文献进行全面的元分析综述以来，相关文献有了长足的发展，并纳入了新的理论视角，如基于资源的方法。因此，我们对之前的综述进行了扩展，提出了社会化过程的最新模型，对文献进行了综述，并通过元分析对这一最新模型进行了研究。我们总共确定了 256 项符合荟萃分析纳入标准的研究，其中 183 项研究具有足够的跨构建类别 k 值，被纳入荟萃分析。在相关层面上，我们分析了近端适应指标的前因和远端结果的近端适应。我们还研究了一个潜在的调节因素，即研究是在横向个人主义（HI）文化还是纵向集体主义（VC）文化中进行的。最后，我们分析了一个路径模型，以确定特定前因（年龄、全职工作经验、组织任期、积极主动型人格、信息寻求、组织策略、内部指导/支持）、近端适应指标（社会认可度、角色清晰度、任务掌握度、感知契合度）和远端结果（工作满意度、组织承诺、离职意向、其他绩效和幸福感）之间的独特关系。我们的分析揭示了积极主动的个性和积极主动的新人行为在新人适应中的作用，以及社会接纳对新人的重要性。此外，我们还发现，适应感是一个重要的适应指标，但对其的研究相对较少，而新人的幸福感则是另一个社会化结果。我们提出了社会化理论和研究方法的未来发展方向。

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