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) Symmetrical
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