著者

竹内 倫和 竹内 規彦

出版者

日本経営学会

雑誌

日本経営学会誌 (ISSN:18820271)

巻号頁・発行日

no.23, pp.37-49, 2009-05-25

被引用文献数

1

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There has been a growing attention among researchers and practitioners regarding how newcomers adjust themselves to their organizations that can be influenced by multiple factors including both pre- and post-entry factors of their organizational entry. In this study, we proposed an integrative model of newcomers' adjustment that subsumes pre- and post-entry factors on newcomers' adjustment. The model was then tested with our unique dataset collected from several waves of survey at different time points. This paper was organized into Studies 1 and 2 for examining pre- and post entry factors influencing newcomers' adjustment process, respectively. Firstly, our analyses in Study 1, using a cross-sectional survey data of 297 newcomers from 56 companies, uncovered that firms' early recruitment practice, especially advertising practice as perceived by newcomers during pre-entry period, was related positively to organizational commitment and negatively to turnover intentions among newcomers as of their organizational entry. Secondly, our findings in Study 1 clarified that an individual's career self exploration was positively related to his/her organizational commitment and achievement motivation to work after organizational entry. Thirdly, a structural equation modeling analysis of our longitudinal data in Study 2, including 74 newcomers' matched data collected at the first and second years of their entry, revealed that the degree of newcomers' organizational adjustment had increased over one year via the mediating effect of their mastery of socialization learning contents. Finally, our Study 2 also explored that firms' socialization tactics had facilitated the newcomers' adjustment via the mediating effect of socialization learning contents. Findings have contributed to extant career studies by proposing and testing a more integrative model of newcomers' socialization that includes both pre- and post-entry factors as predictors of their adjustment processes.