Capitalizing on Proactive Personality Over Organizational Socialization Tactics in Newcomer Learning: A Meta-Analytic Investigation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pang, Xingyu; Song, Yifan; Liang, Jian; Wang, Mo
• 署名单位: East China University of Science and Technology; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Tongji University; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0001351
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: GROWTH MODELING APPROACH; INFORMATION-SEEKING; INDIVIDUALISM-COLLECTIVISM; work experience; BEHAVIOR; adjustment; outcomes; entry; antecedents; strategies

摘要

The evolving workplace dynamics make it difficult for organizations to meet the customized learning needs of newcomers through standardized socialization programs. Consequently, attention has shifted toward leveraging newcomer proactivity as another pathway for facilitating newcomer learning. However, it remains unclear whether and when newcomer proactive personality can produce desired learning outcomes as organizational socialization tactics. We conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 85 independent samples (N = 24,293) to directly address this issue. Our findings indicate that proactive personality accounts for additional variance in newcomer learning outcomes beyond organizational socialization tactics. Importantly, the relative effectiveness of newcomer proactive personality compared to organizational socialization tactics is less salient among veteran (vs. neophyte) newcomers and in higher (vs. lower) individualistic cultures. Our findings also show that newcomer proactive behaviors serve as the crucial mechanism linking organizational socialization tactics and newcomer proactive personality to individual learning outcomes. Implications for how to facilitate newcomer learning are discussed.