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Chapter One
SOCIALIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL
CONTEXTS
Blake E. Ashforth
Department of Management,
W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA
David M. Sluss
Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina, USA
and
Spencer H. Harrison
W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA
The survival of an organization depends partly on its ongoing ability to integrate
new members into the fold while simultaneously allowing if not encouraging
organizational change. Organizational socialization is the process by
which individuals become part of an organization's pattern of activities (Anderson,
Riddle & Martin, 1999). This broad definition accommodates the impact
of both the organization on the individual and the individual on the organization
(the latter is often referred to as individualization or personalization),
and-given that socialization i ... read full excerpt from International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2007 ebook
