Newcomer Adjustment: Examining the Role of Managers’ Perception of Newcomer Proactive Behavior During Organizational Socialization

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• Personal Author:
  Bauer TN ; Ellis AM ; Erdogan B ; Nifadkar SS
• Description:
  Separate streams of organizational socialization research have recognized the importance of (a) newcomer proactivity and (b) manager support in facilitating newcomer adjustment. However, extant research has largely focused on the newcomers' experience, leaving the perspectives of managers during socialization relatively unexplored-a theoretical gap that has implications both for newcomer adjustment and manager-newcomer interactions that may serve as a basis for future relationship development. Drawing from the "interlocked" employee behavior argument of Weick (1979), we propose that managers' perception of newcomers' proactive behaviors are associated with concordant manager behaviors, which, in turn, support newcomer adjustment. Further, we investigate a cognitive mechanism-managers' evaluation of newcomers' commitment to adjust-which we expect underlies the proposed relationship between newcomers' proactive behaviors and managers' supportive behaviors. Using a time-lagged, 4-phase data collection of a sample of new software engineers in India and their managers, we were able to test our hypothesized model as well as rule out alternative explanations via multilevel structural equation modeling. Results broadly supported our model even after controlling for manager-newcomer social exchange relationship, proactive personalities of both newcomers and managers, and potential effects of coworker information providing. The implications of our findings for theory and practice are discussed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Organizational Socialization Employees Information Seeking Manager Information Providing Newcomer Adjustment Newcomer Proactivity Occupational Psychology Workforce Development Work Organization
• ISSN:
  0021-9010
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Georgia ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  102
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063210
• Citation:
  J Appl Psychol 2017 Jun; 102(6):993-1001
• Contact Point Address:
  Allison M. Ellis, Orfalea College of Business, California Polytechnic State University, 1 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93408
• Email:
  ellis09@calpoly.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Portland State University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Applied Psychology
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7f300bf784c8f06cf663d56a1a184c35cac96fe99df0d5a75f87a9583d0d8738cf2a3d1612645647010a9ff40db6debcc70c6943528f792666d20249b8f13dd0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226312/cdc_226312_DS1.pdf
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