Organizational entry
Subtitle: toward a more complete understanding of newcomers' experiences
By: Meryl Reis Louis
Contributors: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Commerce and Business Administration
Series: Faculty working papers -- no. 562; Faculty working papers -- no. 562.
Publisher: College of Commerce and Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Published: 1979
Place of publication: [Urbana, Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 25
Subjects: Employee orientation; Labor turnover
Description: "Growing disillusionment among new members of organizations has been traced to inadequacies in approaches to organizational entry. To provide a foundation for more adequate organizational entry practices, gaps in existing approaches are identified and a more comprehensive conceptual framework is developed. The framework: identifies key features of transition experiences; describes the sense-making processes by which individuals cope with transition features, in particular 'surprises'; highlights how newcomers and insiders differ in sense-making needs and resources. Implications are drawn for organizational entry practices."
Notes: "An earlier version of the paper was presented at the November 1978 Los Angeles Meetings of the Operations Research Society of America/The Institute of Management Sciences."

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 24-25).