I’ll do it myself: self-leadership, proactivity, and socialization
Leadership & Organization Development Journal
ISSN: 0143-7739
Article publication date: 21 August 2019
Issue publication date: 12 September 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore newcomers as active participants within their own socialization, through the influence of self-leadership on proactivity and subsequently organizational socialization and organizational commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
Data collected from 193 organizational newcomers (i.e. individuals within their first year at an organization) working in a variety of industries were examined within three serial mediation models in PROCESS.
Findings
The results of these analyses suggest that self-leadership influences organizational newcomers’ adjustment and subsequent commitment by assisting them in seeking organizational resources.
Research limitations/implications
This study answers calls to explore both the mediating mechanisms through which self-leadership processes influence organizational outcomes and the complex relationships between human workplace interactions and the proximal and distal outcomes of socialization.
Practical implications
The findings indicate that organizational stakeholders should enhance the self-leadership abilities of newcomer, thereby easing the socialization burden on organizations.
Originality/value
This paper offers a novel framework (i.e. self-leadership) for understanding newcomer socialization and provides an encompassing model that recognizes individual capacities, communicative behaviors, adjustment and subsequent organizational attitudes.
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Citation
Cranmer, G.A., Goldman, Z.W. and Houghton, J.D. (2019), "I’ll do it myself: self-leadership, proactivity, and socialization", Leadership & Organization Development Journal, Vol. 40 No. 6, pp. 684-698. https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-11-2018-0389
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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