Songqi Liu, Daniel Watts, Jie Feng, Ying Wu, Jingfeng Yin
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摘要
数十年来通过实地实验和准实验进行的研究使我们积累了有关入职和社会化项目(SPs)在就业、高等教育和军事服务等各种情况下的有效性的因果证据。然而,文献中并没有一个综合的概念框架和定量的综述来评估这些社会化项目对降低新人流失率的效果及其边界条件。在本研究中,我们借鉴了一种配置方法,对战略计划的战略要素进行了分类,并根据社会化文献中的现有理论提出了这些要素的组合,同时考察了这些组合对战略计划的留任效益的调节作用。综合 83 项现场实验的 168 个效应大小,我们的荟萃分析显示出 OR = 1.46 的显著总体效应大小,这表明,与对照组的新人相比,参加 SP 的新人留任几率平均高出 1.46 倍。我们的研究结果还表明,如果SP包括识别有效任务行为、鼓励积极主动和促进社会融合等内容,那么SP对新人留任的有利影响就会更大。我们进一步证明,当SP以面授和交错模式提供时,与SP参与相关的留任益处会增加,但在不同的样本类型和研究设计特征下保持不变。最后,我们讨论了我们的研究如何拓展和发展了社会化文献中的理论认识,并为管理新来者保留提供了超越我们现有知识的实际意义。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有)。
Unpacking the effects of socialization programs on newcomer retention: A meta-analytic review of field experiments.
Decades of research conducted using field experiments and quasi-experiments have enabled us to accumulate causal evidence on the effectiveness of onboarding and socialization programs (SPs) across various contexts including employment, higher education, and military services. However, the literature is devoid of an integrated conceptual framework and a quantitative review evaluating the effect of such SPs on reducing newcomer turnover and its boundary conditions. In this study, we draw from a configurational approach to categorize strategic components of SPs, propose bundles of these components based on extant theories in the socialization literature, and examine the moderating effects of these bundles on the retention benefits of SPs. Combining 168 effect sizes from 83 field experiments, our meta-analysis reveals a significant overall effect size of OR = 1.46, suggesting that, on average, the odds of retention are 1.46 times higher for newcomers participating in a SP compared to newcomers in the control group. Our results also indicate that SPs' beneficial effects on newcomer retention are greater when they include the components of identifying effective task behaviors, encouraging proactivity, and facilitating social integration, a bundle aimed at satisfying key psychological needs identified by self-determination theory. We further demonstrate that the retention benefits associated with SP participation increase when the SPs are delivered in-person and in a staggered mode but remain intact across different sample types and study design features. We conclude by discussing how our study expands and develops theoretical understanding within the socialization literature and offers practical implications for managing newcomer retention that go beyond our current knowledge. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
期刊介绍:
Psychological Bulletin publishes syntheses of research in scientific psychology. Research syntheses seek to summarize past research by drawing overall conclusions from many separate investigations that address related or identical hypotheses.
A research synthesis typically presents the authors' assessments:
-of the state of knowledge concerning the relations of interest;
-of critical assessments of the strengths and weaknesses in past research;
-of important issues that research has left unresolved, thereby directing future research so it can yield a maximum amount of new information.