Fitting In

Newcomer Adaptation in a Corporate Research Setting

Bibliographic Data

ID6013089
AuthorsE K Briody (0000-0001-6218-371X, General Motors (United States), corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume7
Issue2
Pages19-38
Publication date1988-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral Issues in Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-7917 • E-ISSN: 1937-6227
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/cia.1988.7.2.19
OpenAlexW2071179118
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

This ethnographic study of a corporate research department expands our understanding of the difficulties encountered by new employees in learning the cultural rules of the workplace. Particular attention is focused on the process by which newcomers become affiliated with their initial projects. The results suggest that newcomers tend to identify with other employees on the basis of job classification, gender, age, and tenure in the department. Such information is useful in sensitizing all individuals in a given organizational setting to the culturally relevant learning which newcomers must acquire and in providing criteria for the re‐evaluation of existing newcomer orientation programs

Adaptation (eye · Business · Ethnography · Knowledge management · Organizational culture · Orientation (vector space · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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