Identification through socialization: Evidence from a Korean company's newcomer training program

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Using multi-methods, this paper explores the process of organizational identification in an early socialization context, a newcomer training program in a Korean company. Interviews with trainers showed that the organization uses institutionalized socialization tactics that seek to impose an organizationally espoused identity on newcomers, thereby imbuing organizational identification. Interviews with trainees showed that an individual's organizational identification is generated through a twofold process'cognitive path and affective path. Subsequent quantitative analysis with longitudinal survey data from trainees confirmed this process of organizational identification. It also revealed that mentor identification, overlapping both paths, plays a significant role in increasing organizational identification, but this is not necessarily true for team identification.

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