Jenny Chen's Outputs (8)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.