The comparative effects of supervisor helping motives on newcomer adjustment and socialization outcomes
| Autor: | Alex L. Rubenstein, John D. Kammeyer-Mueller, Tomas Thundiyil |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Motivation
Supervisor media_common.quotation_subject Socialization 05 social sciences Helping behavior Interpersonal communication PsycINFO GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS Taxonomy (general) Perception 0502 economics and business Humans Normative Interpersonal Relations Psychology Social psychology 050203 business & management Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Psychology. 105:1466-1489 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1854 0021-9010 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/apl0000492 |
| Popis: | The preponderance of organizational socialization research has focused on the perceptions and interests of newcomers. Yet, insiders-particularly immediate supervisors-are central to newcomers' adjustment, primarily in providing newcomers help. To facilitate such behavior, however, it is necessary to understand supervisors' helping motivations. Beginning from a new theoretically grounded taxonomy, we examined how supervisor reports of their own self-oriented, other-oriented, and normative motives predicted newcomer-rated received help and subsequent adjustment/socialization outcomes. We also examined the moderating role of newcomer motive perceptions on whether help was reciprocated to supervisors. Our model was tested with multiwave data from newcomers and supervisors during the first 3 months of starting a job. Newcomers reported receiving greater help from supervisors who described themselves as being motivated by self-oriented tangible gains and other-orientation, whereas supervisors who described themselves as being motivated by self-oriented enhancement were seen as less helpful. Further, when newcomers perceived that supervisors were more motivated by other-orientation and less by self-oriented tangible gains, newcomers reciprocated more help to the supervisor later on. Our results advance theory about the role of interpersonal helping during socialization, revealing that not all provided help is interpreted similarly by newcomers, and that differing supervisor motivations should also be factored into account. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). |
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