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Assimilation Processes

Assimilation Processes. Chapter 7. Chapter 7 Quiz. There are three phases in the socialization process. Anticipatory socialization is a process that occurs before entry into the organization. Metamorphosis is a sense making stage that occurs when a new employee enters the organization.

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Assimilation Processes

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  1. Assimilation Processes Chapter 7

  2. Chapter 7 Quiz • There are three phases in the socialization process. • Anticipatory socialization is a process that occurs before entry into the organization. • Metamorphosis is a sense making stage that occurs when a new employee enters the organization.

  3. Chapter 7 Quiz • The Encounter phase is the state reached at the completion of the socialization process. • The employment interview is one of the most widely used contexts in which new employees can be recruited or screened. • An employment interview also allows a potential employee to discover things about a prospective organization.

  4. Chapter 7 Quiz • Observing is a newcomer information-seeking tactic in which the newcomer purposely violates suspected norms and then observes what happens. • Role taking is the first phase of the role-development process. • If your boss trusts you, listens to you, and provides you support, chances are that you are in the “out-group.”

  5. Chapter 7 Quiz • The socialization process is seen as one way to maximize employee contributions in a human resource type of organization. • (XC) Socialization occurs when an individual learns about a new organizational culture

  6. Overview • Looking at the processes through which individuals adapt to organizational life

  7. Assimilation • Those on-going behavioral and cognitive processes by which individuals join, become integrated into, and exit organizations.

  8. Assimilation as a Dual Process • Socialization • an individual learns about the requirements of the job or decides certain things that will help them fit in • Individualization • employees change some aspect of the organization to better suit their needs

  9. Models of Organizational Socialization • Phases 1. Anticipatory Socialization • The processes that occurs before an individual enters the organization 2. Encounter • When a new employee enters the organization 3. Metamorphosis • When the new employee is accepted as an insider(Spotlight on Scholarship..p. 148)

  10. Content of Socialization • Role related information • The information, skills, procedures, and rules that individuals must grasp to do the job • Organizational culture • There are many different cultures • Geographical / lifestyle information

  11. Communication During Assimilation • The Employment Interview • Newcomer Information Seeking • Role Development Processes • Others?

  12. The Employment Interview • A recruiting and screening tool • An information gathering tool • A socialization tool • Case in Point “The New Job Hunt” (p. 153)

  13. Uncertain Reduction Theory • Relational comm. involves exchanging of personal information • Deals w/ ways in which individuals come to know themselves and others in interaction • Focus on self awareness and knowledge about others • People have a difficult time w/ uncertainty, so they want to be able to predict behavior with interactions. They inform themselves about the person.

  14. Newcomer Information Seeking Tactics • Proactive roles • More than passive • Actively seeking information to adapt to roles and culture • Information seeking strategies (p.156) -Social costs and also a need to reduce uncertainty

  15. Role Development Processes • Role Taking • Role Making • Role Routinization • In-Group • Out-Group

  16. Leader Member Exchange Theory (LMX) • Org. members accomplish work through roles • Individuals develop roles through interaction w/ others in the org. • Relationship levels • Consider nature of relationship with in the hierarchy

  17. LMX Theory • Asymmetrical (complimentary) • Communication differences are maximized (unilateral) • Superior to Subordinate • Symmetrical • Communication differences are minimized • Behave similarly equilateral • Co-worker to Co-worker

  18. Organizational Exit • Ageing and Retirement • Downsizing, Mergers, and Acquisitions • Mobile society

  19. Leaving an Organization • Is a process, not an event • A process that influences not only those who leave but those who are left behind • Communication plays an important part

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