This paper systematically reviews research on organizational socialization by examining ten key theories within four major perspectives: Uncertainty Reduction, Identity Affiliation, Social Exchange, and Resource. We aim to address three main research questions: (1) What motivates individuals to...

The pursuit of social goals and ethics in business creates challenges. Sustained efforts to address poverty, environmental degradation or health/wellbeing require meaningful and transformative responses that impact across multiple levels - individual, community and the global collective....

This study provides a comprehensive review of the intellectual structure and current dynamics of onboarding and socialization research. Using the Web of Science (WoS) database, we found 452 research articles that met the inclusion criteria. Biblioshiny R-package and VOSviewer were used for the...

The socio-political system that has developed over the last several decades has had a detrimental effect on our societal values and has all but brought the nation to a standstill. The way that individuals work and act has been significantly impacted as a result. Our ideas of human resource...

Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...