You Are New to an Organization and Do Not Really

question 52

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

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Recognize the use and implications of credit in personal finance, including home mortgages and credit laws.

Differentiate among financial institutions in terms of services, fees, and government insurance.

Understand inflation's impact on the real value of money and strategies to maintain the buying power of savings.

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Definitions:

Applied Behavior Analysis

A systematic approach to understanding behavior and applying interventions based on principles of behaviorism, often used in educational and therapeutic settings to improve or modify behaviors.

Behavior Modification

A treatment approach, based on the principles of operant conditioning, that replaces undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement.

Behaviorism

A scientific approach to understanding human and animal behavior, focusing on observable and measurable behaviors rather than mental processes.

Reinforcement

In behavior psychology, a stimulus which increases the likelihood of a preceding behavior to occur again.