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Sustaining newcomers' career adaptability: The roles of socialization tactics, job embeddedness and career variety

Fan, Lanyue; Cai, Di; Li, Zehua; Xu, Lingxiao; Wen, Shanshan; Li, Fangmin; Guan, Ziqing; Guan, Yanjun

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Authors

Lanyue Fan

Di Cai

Zehua Li

Lingxiao Xu

Shanshan Wen

Fangmin Li



Abstract

In this study, we aim to examine how socialization practices predict newcomers' career adaptability during their organizational transitions. Drawing on career construction theory and conservation of resources theory, we argue that newcomers' job embeddedness, as predicted by their perceived organizational socialization tactics, positively predicts their career adaptability during career transitions. We investigate the role of past transition experiences (i.e., career variety) in moderating the relationship between job embeddedness and career adaptability. Data were collected at three time points from 492 newcomers in an information technology company in China. The newcomers' perceived organizational socialization tactics (i.e., training, future prospects and coworker support) positively predicted their job embeddedness, which was positively associated with their career adaptability. Additionally, career variety weakened the positive effect of job embeddedness on career adaptability. Furthermore, career variety moderated the indirect effects of future prospects and coworker support on career adaptability via job embeddedness, but not that of training. We conclude the article with discussions of our theoretical and practical contributions.

Citation

Fan, L., Cai, D., Li, Z., Xu, L., Wen, S., Li, F., …Guan, Y. (2023). Sustaining newcomers' career adaptability: The roles of socialization tactics, job embeddedness and career variety. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 96(2), 264-286. https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12423

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 16, 2022
Online Publication Date Jan 5, 2023
Publication Date 2023-06
Deposit Date Jan 11, 2023
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal The Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology
Print ISSN 0963-1798
Electronic ISSN 2044-8325
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 96
Issue 2
Pages 264-286
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12423
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1185552

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© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The British Psychological Society.

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