This study integrates research on newcomer socialization and work teams to examine how the team environment facilitates or hinders the translation of human capital into newcomer performance in ...professional sports teams. Using large, multiyear and multilevel data from the top five European professional football leagues, we examine how individual-level newcomer human capital and the team-level characteristics (prior team performance, number of newcomers) influence individual newcomer performance during two different socialization contexts (when more vs. less time for socialization is provided). We found that individual human capital was positively related to newcomer performance across socialization contexts while the direct relationships between team variables and performance were conditional on the socialization context. Prior team performance was positively related to newcomer performance when more time for socialization was provided, but prior team performance as well as the number of newcomers were negatively related to newcomer performance when less time for socialization was provided. Beyond the direct relationships, our results show that human capital was less positively related to newcomer performance when newcomers joined higher performing teams across socialization contexts. These findings extend our understanding of the complex relationships between individual human capital and the team's socialization environment on newcomer performance and advance new knowledge regarding conditions that facilitate the success of newcomers who join existing (operating) teams.
Using consumer socialization theory, this study examined the associations between perceived influence of parents, peers, employment, and media and spending behaviors of emerging adult college ...students from three different regions of the US: Northeast, South Atlantic, and Mountain regions. Data from the Emerging Adult Financial Capability Study (N = 2,322) were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Greater parental and employment influences perceived by the students were linked with more responsible spending behaviors, while greater peer and media influences were associated with less responsible spending behaviors. This study highlights the importance of the home and the workplace as the nexus for financial learning. This knowledge can help focus efforts to help future emerging adult college students learn responsible spending behaviors.
Joining a new employer is an exciting but also challenging
experience. To learn more about new employees' transition into a new work
environment, we interviewed newcomers in a medium-sized German IT ...service
provider about the challenges they experienced during organizational entry and
how onboarding helped them cope with these. Analyses revealed that participants
predominantly experienced professional challenges. A combination of activities
- especially social support and integration into everyday work -
helped the new hires overcome the challenges they experienced. Findings also
showed that opportunities to participate and contribute to the new work
environment gain relevance as socialization progresses. These insights into
newcomers' experiences may enable organizations to design an
employee-centered onboarding strategy that contributes to newcomers'
successful organizational socialization.
Background: Preschoolers are children with a phase of developing and learning new things quickly. The development phase begins with interacting with family and socializing with playmates in the ...social environment. The social environment can affect the development process of pre-school age children, for example the occurrence of verbal abuse in the social environment that has an impact on children's social development.
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between verbal abuse and the socialization ability of preschool children.
Methods: The research design was cross sectional study and the sampling method was carried out by the total sampling method. The sample in this study was all 50 students of Playgroup Al Fattah Malang. Data analysis used SPSS program with Chi Square test.
Results: It was found that 46% of children received verbal abuse in the low category, 38% in the medium category and 16% received verbal abuse in the high category and 76% of children had good socialization skills and 24% of children had poor socialization skills and through Chi Square test analysis with In the SPSS program, the value of Asymptotic Significance (2-sided) = 0.001 < 0.05, it means that H1 is accepted, or it is clear that there is a relationship between verbal abuse and the socialization skills of preschoolers in Playgroup Al Fattah Malang.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that verbal abuse can result in barriers and disruptions to the socialization development of preschool children. Parents and teachers are expected to provide the right parenting to improve socialization skills in preschool age children.
Companies that nurture a shared corporate culture based on specific corporate values can improve their performance. However, when companies expand globally, communicating and transferring these ...values can be challenging, particularly when there are significant linguistic and cultural differences. This qualitative study examined the case of a small Norwegian IT company that has put its two corporate values at the core of its activity, and how these values were transferred to a subsidiary in India. Drawing on the concept of recontextualization and socialization theory, the study investigates the following: (1) how the corporate values were transferred, recontextualized and renegotiated in the Indian subsidiary; (2) how those values were implemented through a set of socialization mechanisms. Our main findings reveal how the Indian leaders actively recontextualized the values into prevailing cultural practices in India, and how senior employees were engaged in the value transfer process. Moreover, this article outlines how a small company without a formal HR department and with no expatriates to guide the process can use soft control mechanisms related to more formalized and structured HR practices to implement the headquarters' values. Additionally, the article discusses the theoretical and practical implications of the findings.
Emotion understanding (EU) develops through emotion socialization provided by children's social environments, but the relative importance of various socializing agents has not been determined. In ...this prospective study, the unique contributions of parents, teachers, and peers to changes in EU from 4 to 8 years of age were therefore investigated in a birth cohort sample of 924 Norwegian children (50.1% boys). A warm parent-child relationship at 4 years of age predicted increased EU at 6 years of age but not from 6 to 8 years of age. A close teacher-child relationship forecasted enhanced EU at both 6 and 8 years of age. The results are in accordance with previous research on parents' roles and bring new knowledge by underscoring the importance of teachers in children's development of EU.
Public Significance StatementThis study of Norwegian 4- to 8-year-old children suggests that the parent-child relationship as perceived by the child predicts their later development of emotion understanding (EU) in the preschool years. After school entry, however, the teacher-child relationship predicts later EU development. Thus, to promote children's emotional competence, interventions that support emotion socialization behaviors might need to be directed not only to parents but also to teachers.
A theoretically grounded, validated measure of parent financial socialization is needed. This article describes the development and validation process of three new scales: the Parent Financial ...Modeling Scale (eight items), the Parent-Child Financial Discussion Scale (nine items), and the Experiential Learning of Finances Scale (three items). These may be treated as subscales of a multidimensional latent construct: the Parent Financial Socialization Scale (20 items). The three scales measure the three primary methods of family financial socialization. The scales are designed to be retrospective, with target participants being U.S. emerging adults (age 18-30). A rigorous development process was undertaken: an initial pool of items was generated, expert assessments were collected, cognitive interviews were conducted, and (following preliminary data collection) preliminary item reduction analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were conducted. Final data were collected from a diverse (51.7% female, 47.6% male; 31.6% White, 22.0% Black, 19.8% Latinx, 14.6% Asian; 50.4% no parent with college degree, 47.4% parent with college degree) sample of 4,182 U.S. emerging adults. During validation, item reduction analysis, CFA, reliability tests, measurement invariance tests, and construct validity tests were conducted. The scales demonstrated acceptable reliability and validity, and invariance was established across sex, race, and parents' education level. These scales are unique in their ability to capture nuance and will allow for comparisons across studies. They will enhance the quality of family financial socialization research, expand the questions that can be answered, and allow for the development of programming that is effective for a wide range of families.
Processes of Political Socialization Lee, Nam-Jin; Shah, Dhavan V.; McLeod, Jack M.
Communication research,
10/2013, Letnik:
40, Številka:
5
Journal Article
Recenzirano
By analyzing data from a national panel survey of adolescents (ages 12-17) and their parents conducted around the 2008 general election, this study explores the varied roles communication plays in ...socializing youth into democratic citizenship. In particular, we propose and test a communication mediation model of youth socialization, in which interdependent communication processes located in the family, schools, media, and peer networks combine to cultivate communication competence, a set of basic communication skills and motives needed for active and informed participation in public life. Analysis of our panel data indicates that participation in deliberative classroom activities and democratic peer norms contribute to civic activism among youth. These peer and school influences, however, are found to be largely indirect, working through informational use of conventional and online news media, and expression and discussion of political ideas outside of classroom and family boundaries. In particular, our findings highlight strong online pathways to participation, centering on news consumption and political expression via digital media technologies, suggesting the key role of the Internet in this dynamic.
