Socialization tactics and newcomer adjustment: A meta-analytic review and test of a model

By A. Saks, Krista Uggerslev, N. Fassina. 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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A Person-Environment Fit Approach to Volunteerism: Volunteer Personality Fit and Culture Fit as Predictors of Affective Outcomes (2008, background): “Also, volunteers may feel less need to adapt to the organizations' culture than is the case for paid employees (Saks, Uggerslev, & Fassina, 2007 ).”
Modelling job crafting behaviours: Implications for work engagement (2016, background): “E) fit, and indirectly predicts job satisfaction, organizational commitment and, to a lesser extent, job performance (Saks et al., 2007).”
Employee engagement, human resource management practices and competitive advantage (2015, result): “These findings contrast with previous research showing that socialization tactics are related to outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, in part because they provide newcomers with information and reduce uncertainty (Saks et al., 2007).”
Getting What's New from Newcomers: Empowering Leadership, Creativity, and Adjustment in the Socialization Context (2013, unknown): “Conversely, the second argument posits that efforts aimed at encouraging newcomers to uniquely approach their new roles can promote innovative role orientations and novel self-expressions, but fail to reduce uncertainty and its harmful manifestations (i.e., role ambiguity, low attachment, diminished”
Perceived organizational support and embeddedness as key mechanisms connecting socialization tactics to commitment and turnover among new employees (2013, unknown): “Two recent meta-analysis provided evidence that socialization tactics are related to fit, a key component of embeddedness, and social acceptance, which is similar to the links component of embeddedness (Bauer et al., 2007; Saks et al., 2007).”
Socialization tactics in wikipedia and their effects (2010, background): “Recent meta-analyses show that newcomers who experience more institutionalized socialization practices have more certainty about their roles, feel more accepted by the organization, are more satisfied with their jobs, express greater organizational commitment, are less likely to leave the organizati”
Navigating Uncharted Waters (2015, background): “…has been favorably associated with a number of distal socialization outcomes, including intentions to stay or leave an organization (Chatman, 1991; Saks et al., 2007; van Vianen, 2000; Wang et al., 2011), organizational commitment (Chow, 2002; Cooper-Thomas et al., 2004; Saks et al.; van Vianen),…”