The socialization process truly begins when a future employee simply considers working for a company. The candidate forms expectations of what the daily realities and culture of a workplace will be.

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Organizational socialization, often called employee onboarding, has become an essential process for cash-strapped small businesses that rely chiefly on talented staff to grow profits. Whether they are ...

In my career, I was honored to serve in the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) field as a paramedic. It was a fulfilling but at times thankless job. Having the skills, knowledge and experience to help ...

Our perception is highly sensitized for absorbing social information, new research has found. The brain is thus trained to pay a great degree of attention to everyday actions. Our brain automatically ...

Among the processes most thoroughly analyzed by social scientists studying religion have been conversion/affiliation and, more recently, deconversion/disaffiliation ...