You Are New to an Organization and Do Not Really

question 89

Multiple Choice

You are new to an organization and do not really know what to expect about the socialization process. You are a recent
M.B.A. and have an undergraduate degree in computer science. Your new firm is a software development company with an emphasis in the health care industry. Your hiring process includes campus interviews, a day-long trip to interview at the company, an offer phone call and letter, and some promotional material sent via the mail. When you arrive for your first day of work, you spend half a day in an orientation session with Human Resources, where you complete paperwork and receive a company handbook. Then you spend the rest of the day with your supervisor, who gives you a tour, introduces you to your co-workers, and explains your first project. After that, you begin working and getting to know the others in the company. You find that in most respects, your experience fits your expectations, but in some ways you are surprised by realities that you hadn't expected. None of these surprises is too difficult to accept, so you eventually begin to feel at home and happy with your new job.
-The learning that you experience during the interviewing and hiring process occurs as part of the_______ stage of employee socialization.

• A) encounter
• B) prearrival
• C) selection
• D) metamorphosis
• E) none of the above

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Definitions:

Left-Tailed Area

The area under the curve of a probability distribution to the left of a specified value, used in hypothesis testing.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or to a system, minus the number of linear constraints.

Table Value

A specific value found in a statistical table, often used as a reference point for data analysis or hypothesis testing.

Expected Frequencies

The predicted counts of observations in each category of a statistical distribution based on a theoretical model.