INTEGRATOR OR GREMLIN? IDENTITY PARTNERSHIPS AND TEAM NEWCOMER SOCIALIZATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cooper, Danielle; Rockmann, Kevin W.; Moteabbed, Shora; Thatcher, Sherry M. B.
• 署名单位: University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; George Mason University; George Mason University; George Mason University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2018.0014
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 128-146
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL SOCIALIZATION; social identity; INFORMATION-SEEKING; self-categorization; PROACTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPANDED MODEL; identification; work; Similarity; FAULTLINES

摘要

When newcomers enter teams, they seek out identity resources from team incumbents to help their socialization. In turn, team incumbents offer identity resources to newcomers to support incumbents' existing held team identities. Based on theories of identity and socialization, we make a case for the identity partnership, a relationship in which identity resources are exchanged between an incumbent team member and a team newcomer. We first explore the identity needs of both team newcomers and team incumbents and how such needs drive proactivity. We then examine the initial selection of possible others for identity partnerships and the evaluation of initial exchanges between parties once initial selections have been made. Finally, we discuss partnership formation and shared identification as dyadic outcomes. We conclude with a discussion of how the dyadic identity partnership relationalizes our understanding of newcomer socialization.