All Outputs (17)

Investigating the role of social events on newcomer adaptation: Insights from two studies (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Newly hired employees are frequently encouraged to participate in company social gatherings, such as lunches, outings, and welcome parties, as a means to familiarise themselves with their colleagues. Although conventional wisdom suggests that partici... Read More about Investigating the role of social events on newcomer adaptation: Insights from two studies.

Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations (2023)
Journal Article

Organizations may hire newcomers as a source of creativity, bringing fresh ideas and novel solutions to benefit organizational performance. However, the conditions that foster newcomer innovation are not well understood. Drawing on behavioral plastic... Read More about Cue consistency matters: How and when newcomers respond to supervisor creativity expectations.

Ready to get on board? Facilitating role transition of new graduates (2022)
Book Chapter

There is abundant evidence that student-professional role transition can be problematic and stressful for new graduates. It is therefore important to understand how new graduates go from the role of a student to that of a professional, which is the f... Read More about Ready to get on board? Facilitating role transition of new graduates.

Finding one's own way: How newcomers who differ stay well (2022)
Journal Article

Purpose: Being different from others can be stressful, and this may be especially salient for newcomers during organizational socialization when they may be expected to fit in. Thus, drawing on conservation of resources theory, the authors examine th... Read More about Finding one's own way: How newcomers who differ stay well.

The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose: With organizations hiring from increasingly diverse labor markets, this study aims to examine the implications of newcomers’ individual differentiation for their group identification. The paper proposes and tests a self-verification process... Read More about The effects of individual differentiation on newcomer group identification.

When do supervisor expectations for creativity lead to newcomer innovative role orientation (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Using a role theory perspective, this study investigated contingent conditions under which supervisor expectations for creativity is related to newcomer innovative role orientation. Longitudinal data were collected from 161 graduates from a universit... Read More about When do supervisor expectations for creativity lead to newcomer innovative role orientation.

The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples (2019)
Journal Article

Models of organizational socialization situate newcomer understanding and social integration as critical proximal outcomes, yet researchers have identified both theoretical and psychometric weaknesses in existing survey measures. Drawing on prior res... Read More about The newcomer understanding and integration scale: Psychometric evidence across six samples.

Understanding newcomer role orientation in the workplace: A self-determination theory perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Newcomers can be a source of innovation for organisations, bringing fresh perspectives and novel solutions. Thus, in many organisations, it is desirable for newcomers to adopt an innovative (versus custodial) role orientation. Using self-determinatio... Read More about Understanding newcomer role orientation in the workplace: A self-determination theory perspective.

Newcomer innovative behavior: Factors that enable and inhibit (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this study, we propose that supervisory expectations for creativity would have a stronger positive effect on innovative behavior for newcomer with lower level of organizational identification. For these newcomers, supervisory expectations for crea... Read More about Newcomer innovative behavior: Factors that enable and inhibit.

Onboarding and induction (2016)
Book Chapter

This is particularly true for those of you who have just joined a new company and wish to achieve long-term success and satisfaction in your career. This section discusses what you can do to make a good start.

Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey (2015)
Journal Article

The Higher Education sector in the UK has seen some unprecedented changes in recent years. One of the most striking changes has been the widespread use of casualised contracts in UK universities. In 2012-13, almost 34 per cent of academics worked par... Read More about Hourly paid teachers in UK universities: Findings from an exploratory survey.

The role of proactive information acquisition and helping behaviour on newcomer integration (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Newcomer adjustment and the role of supervisor: Evidence from two studies in China (2011)
Journal Article

The missing link in newcomer adjustment: The role of perceived organizational support and leader-member exchange (2011)
Journal Article

Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China (2010)
Journal Article

Purpose: In spite of the increasing awareness that standardized performance appraisal practices must fit in varied local contexts, limited research and mixed findings still cloud our understanding about how those appraisal practices are perceived and... Read More about Are "standardized performance appraisal practices" really preferred? A case study in China.

Organizational socialization tactics and newcomer adjustment in the Chinese context: Perceived organizational support as mediator
Preprint / Working Paper

Alternative pathways by which newcomer proactive behaviours enable resource acquisition and adjustment
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study investigated newcomer proactive behaviour across two cultural settings, one Western (UK) and one non-Western (China). A two-path research model was developed on the basis of conservation of resources (COR) theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2001). Th... Read More about Alternative pathways by which newcomer proactive behaviours enable resource acquisition and adjustment.