Do Organizational Socialization Tactics Influence Newcomer Embeddedness and Turnover?

The author proposes that socialization tactics influence newcomer turnover by embedding newcomers more extensively into the organization. Hypotheses are tested with a sample of newcomers in a large financial services organization. Results reveal that socialization tactics enable organizations to act...

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Published inJournal of management Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 237 - 256
Main Author Allen, David G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks, CA Sage Publications 01.04.2006
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Employee turnover
Hypothesis testing
Organizational behavior
Socialization
Studies
socialization
turnover
field theory
retention
embeddedness
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Summary:The author proposes that socialization tactics influence newcomer turnover by embedding newcomers more extensively into the organization. Hypotheses are tested with a sample of newcomers in a large financial services organization. Results reveal that socialization tactics enable organizations to actively embed new employees; collective, fixed, and investiture tactics were positively related to on-the-job embeddedness. Results also indicate that on-the-job embeddedness is negatively related to turnover and mediates relationships between some socialization tactics and turnover.
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ISSN:0149-2063
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DOI:10.1177/0149206305280103