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Wang, Danni, Hom, Peter W. and Allen, David G. (2017) Coping with newcomer “hangover”: how socialization tactics affect declining job satisfaction during early employment. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 100 . pp. 196-210. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2017.03.007 ISSN 0001-8791.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2017.03.007
Abstract
New entrants to a job often experience a “hangover effect,” whereby their job satisfaction declines as they become familiar with the job. Socialization scholars thus have sought to identify ways to forestall or ameliorate such declines. Recently, Boswell, Shipp, Payne, and Culbertson (2009) found that the extent of socialization can exacerbate the hangover effect. Following up this provocative finding, this study investigated whether socialization tactics worsen or dampen the hangover effect and by so doing, affect newcomer attrition. We monitored how newcomers' job satisfaction changed over time by surveying them on four occasions during the first six months of employment. We observed that socialization tactics (especially context and social tactics) increase the rate of declining job satisfaction during early employment. Yet all three tactics decrease this descent rate when enacted at high levels. Moreover, the present research established that declining job satisfaction translates into a trajectory of increasing turnover intentions and thus higher quits. Further, we found that extremely high social tactics can actually suppress the hangover effect and thereby reduce newcomer attrition. Our dynamic research offered a more nuanced understanding of how socialization tactics influence the hangover effect and newcomer attrition.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Job satisfaction , Burn out (Psychology), Job enrichment , Work--Psychological aspects, Labor turnover | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Vocational Behavior | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Academic Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0001-8791 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | June 2017 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 100 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 196-210 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jvb.2017.03.007 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 April 2017 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 March 2019 |
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