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9: Recruiting, Socializing, and Disengaging

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    • 9.1: Introduction
      We spend a good chunk of our time being recruited by organizations, entering into new organizations, acclimating ourselves to new organizations, and eventually leaving organizations. This chapter is going to focus on the process of recruiting, socializing, and leaving organizations.
    • 9.2: Recruiting
      Organizations spend a good deal of time and money recruiting people to work in organizations. This section is going to examine the process of recruiting new organizational members. Believe it or not, recruitment is very important for an organization because poor recruitment can be a very costly mistake.
    • 9.3: Socializing
      The process an organization utilizes to ensure that new members acquire necessary attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills to become productive organizational members. can be defined as the the process an organization utilizes to ensure that new members acquire necessary attitudes, behaviors, knowledge, and skills to become productive organizational members. In essence, organizational socialization is a life-long process that individuals go through from childhood to retirement.
    • 9.4: Disengaging
      There are three primary phases of organizational socialization. The first two were discussed in the previous section. In this section, we’re going to examine the final part of organizational socialization, how individuals go about disengaging from an organization. To help us understand disengagement, we are going to examine two types of organizational-disengagement and the steps of disengagement.
    • 9.E: Exercises

    Thumbnail: An early 20th-century illustration of a university faculty member being "given the boot", slang for a form of involuntary termination. (Public Domain).


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