The role of work group context and information seeking in newcomer socialization: An interactionist perspective

Wen-Chi Zou, Qing Tian and Jia Liu

Journal of Management & Organization, 2015, vol. 21, issue 2, 159-175

Abstract: This study examined how information seeking and proximal adjustment outcomes (role clarity and social integration) mediate the relationship between transformational leadership and distal adjustment outcome (affective organizational commitment) in work group context. The results of hierarchical linear modeling involving 212 newcomers and their 53 immediate supervisors revealed that information seeking mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and proximal adjustment outcomes. These in turn were positively related to distal adjustment outcome. Furthermore, work group structure was found to moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and newcomer information seeking.

Date: 2015
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