Synergy or substitution? The interactive effects of insiders’ fairness and support and organizational socialization tactics on newcomer role clarity and social integration

Mohamed Ikram Nasr, Assaad El Akremi and Jacqueline A-M. Coyle-Shapiro

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Abstract: Drawing on fairness heuristics theory (Lind, 2001) and cue consistency theory (Maheswaran & Chaiken, 1991; Slovic, 1966), we test a moderated mediation model that examines whether the institutionalization of organizational socialization tactics enhances or constrains the beneficial effects of supervisory and coworker-referenced justice and support on newcomer role clarity and social integration. The findings of a three-wave study of 219 French newcomers show that although institutionalized tactics strengthen the positive indirect effects of supervisory interpersonal and informational justice on role clarity, via perceived supervisor support, it also acts as a substitute that weakens the positive indirect effect of coworker-referenced interpersonal justice on social integration, via perceived coworker support. Implications of the findings for socialization research and practice are discussed.

Keywords: organizational justice; perceived social support; organizational socialization tactics; role clarity; social segregation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2019-07-01
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Published in Journal of Organizational Behavior, 1, July, 2019, 40(6), pp. 758-778. ISSN: 0894-3796

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