The socialization process truly begins when a future employee simply considers working for a company. The candidate forms expectations of what the daily realities and culture of a workplace will be.

Onboarding, also known as organizational socialization, refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational ...

Vol. 24, No. 5, Special Issue: Employment Relationships: Exchanges between Employees and Employers (Aug., 2003), pp. 537-559 (23 pages) Based on the theoretical framework of newcomer sensemaking this ...