Social Tactics Research Articles

Nurturing Employee Engagement through the Application of Socialization Tactics

Nurturing Employee Engagement through the Application of Socialization Tactics

Glucocorticoid levels predict subsequent social tactic in females of a facultatively social mammal

Abstract Facultatively social species, in which individuals can switch between group‐ and solitary‐living tactics, offer an opportunity to shed light on proximate mechanisms underlying alternative life histories. Promising hormonal mediators of social tactic include glucocorticoids, which control energy allocation and are negatively related to body condition, and testosterone which regulates numerous social behaviours. Here, we investigated hormone profiles associated with social tactic in eight generations of free‐living female striped mice Rhabdomys pumilio. Females are group living during the non‐breeding season but live solitarily or with female kin in communally breeding groups during the breeding season. We tested whether females' baseline levels of corticosterone (a glucocorticoid) and testosterone measured during the breeding season differed before and after females left the group (i.e. when they switched from a group living to solitary social tactic), and whether the hormone levels of females that remained group living differed before and after their nestmates became solitary. We also asked whether seasonal variation in hormone levels was associated with social tactic. During the breeding season, corticosterone levels were lower in solitary than group‐living females both before and after solitary females left the group, and did not differ in solitary females before and after leaving. In group‐living females, corticosterone was higher after their nestmates became solitary than before they left. Testosterone levels did not differ before and after females became solitary and were not associated with social tactic. Corticosterone was higher during the breeding than the non‐breeding season in group‐living females but did not differ between the seasons in solitary females. Testosterone levels were higher in both social tactics during the non‐breeding season. We conclude that baseline corticosterone but not testosterone levels are associated with female social tactic, and that corticosterone levels at the start of the breeding season, when all females are group living, may be an indicator of subsequent tactic: solitary females' corticosterone levels were lower than those of females that remained group living even before the solitary phenotype was expressed. Glucocorticoids might therefore play a modulatory role in social organisation in facultatively social species. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

Smoking-Related Social Control in Indonesian Single-Smoker Couples

BackgroundThe majority of Indonesian smokers are men and those who are married nearly always have a non-smoking wife (i.e. single-smoker couples). Previous studies have suggested that Indonesian women dislike smoking. However, contesting their husbands’ smoking could be seen as disrespectful. In this study, we examine whether, and if so how, wives employ social control tactics to change their husbands’ smoking and how the smokers perceive the tactics.MethodIn-depth interviews (N = 12) with five single-smoker couples (N = 10 individual interviews) and two non-smoking wives of smokers (N = 2) were conducted in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. We used a social control framework and thematic analysis approach to analyse the transcribed interviews.ResultsThree themes emerged from smokers and their wives: (1) although the wives know that smoking is bad, they have to tolerate it, (2) wives and their husbands find it important to maintain harmony and (3) their family’s needs serve as common ground. All the wives interviewed exerted social control to some degree, especially when they were pregnant or had children. Smokers reacted positively to social control and agreed to child-related house rules, but not to requests to give up smoking.ConclusionWives do exert social control and smokers are willing to accommodate and adapt their smoking. However, wives’ influence on smoking may be limited in Indonesia, and focusing on managing their husbands’ smoking at home rather than overall smoking might be more fruitful.

Improving employees’ proactive behaviors at workplace: The role of organizational socialization tactics and work engagement

ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between organizational socialization tactics (context, content, and social tactics), employees’ work engagement and their proactive behaviors (relationship building, positive framing and self-management). Based on a sample of 675 Vietnamese young graduated employees with highly academic background, under 35 years old and with less than 5-year working experience at their organization, the results of questionnaire survey showed that institutionalized socialization tactics can increase Vietnamese employees’ proactive behaviors and their engagement to work, and in its turn, work engagement encourages proactive behaviors at workplace. Among three types of socialization tactics, social tactics were the strongest predictor on all proactive behaviors. Our results also documented a partially mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between social tactics and proactive behavior, and fully mediating role in the relationship between context, content tactics, and proactive behavior. Our results hence support the interactionist perspective in that what happens in work settings is not a result of sole organization’s practice nor individual effort; rather, it is the outcome of the interaction between the organization and the individual.

Meaning by Doing: The Making of Endurance Activism on the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament

This article offers a consideration of physical activity within the contexts of social movement philosophies, decision making, strategies, and tactics through an examination of the 1986 Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament. Drawing from interviews with twenty activists on the Great Peace March, the author argues that physicality and endurance actions—literally, but also symbolically—signify particular meanings of movement for social movements, such as persistence, focus, and determination, to stretch sociopolitical limits and boundaries. Participants endeavor to accomplish difficult physical challenges and maintain the solidarity of their communities to analogize the coming into existence of equally extraordinary visions of social or political transformation. Physical and symbolic expressions of what the author terms “endurance activism” sustained the marchers’ vision of community and the survival of their organization. The article encourages sport historians to use a wider framework to interpret the links between physical activity, social activism, and oppositional movements.

Strikes, general assemblies and institutional insurgency: explaining the persistence of the Québec student movement

ABSTRACT Why have Québec student organizations resisted oligarchization, conservativism, complacency and demobilization since the late 1960’s? The Québec student movement has remained both radical and highly mobilized for over five decades, going on 10 unlimited student strikes and numerous other large-scale mobilizations since 1968, while the organizations which make up the movement have remained radical and non-oligarchical, maintaining similar organizational structures, beliefs and tactics since then. What explains the continuance of their radicalism and mobilization throughout this 50 plus year period? This paper explores the Québec student movements ability to circumvent the processes of oligarchization, conservativism and de-mobilization typically believed to affect social movement organizations as they age, grow and interact with government institutions. It will be argued that three major factors can explain this divergence. Firstly, the Québec student movements organization into large, highly funded, and ideologically radical student federations. Secondly, a unique legal context which protects and empowers student unions and thirdly their ideological subscription to ‘combative syndicalism’ and its embodiment through unique organizational structures: a weak executive system, holding general assemblies and the propensity to use the strike as a social movement tactic. All of this mitigates against the emergence of oligarchy, conservativism and demobilization while acting as abeyance structures helping the movement maintain its radicalism.

The Role of Bedouin Youth and Women in Resistance to the Israeli Prawer Plans in the Naqab

Naqab Bedouin resistance and political activism against the Israeli Prawer plans attracted attention in many local and international contexts and became a symbol of sumud [steadfastness] among Palestinians in Israel. In fact, the Bedouin, led at this time by motivated youth and women activists, showed greater creative, tactical and strategic agency and skills than politicians and scholars acknowledged in the past, and they actively contributed to shaping aspects of their own destiny within the state structure. We argue that creative, nonviolent, everyday and political resistance and activism, led by the young Bedouin [al-hirak al-shababi], succeeded in modifying and mitigating the Israeli Prawer Plan policies and strategies to relocate and expel the Bedouin from their historical villages. This study draws on a number of in-depth interviews in the Naqab with male and female youth, activists, and politicians. Specifically, it shows how Bedouin women and youth were key actors in resisting the Prawer Plan using social media tactics, which later led to Israeli withdrawal and freezing of the plan in 2013. The evolution of Bedouin resistance and the prevailing misrepresentation of the Bedouin is identified and tested through the case study of the anti-Prawer campaign and the Naqab Bedouin villagers’ on-going resistance to being forcibly relocated from their historical land in the Naqab.

Teaching Note—Illuminating Policy Practice Close to Home: The Syracuse University Experience

ABSTRACT Appreciation of policy practice and its rudiments can be achieved beyond the walls of a university classroom, an understanding exemplified by Syracuse University School of Social Work’s annual James L. Stone Legislative Policy Day (LPD). This article describes the school’s approach and its creative use of the Onondaga County Legislative Chambers as venue of choice. Students, faculty, government officials, local and national presenters, and community members all come together to explore the development and implementation of policy change through the lens of social and economic justice. Seven key components of LPD are explicated. Dignity and worth of humankind, one of social work’s professional values, remains at the center of LPD’s efforts. In addition, strengths associated with people and causes are interwoven in the presentations associated with the day. This is coupled with showcasing how the legislative process works and highlighting salient social activist tactics that may be used, given the area of focus.

Newcomer Shared Perceptions of Supervisor Socialization

Drawing on the symbolic interactionist role perspective, we propose that newcomers with the same supervisor will develop a collective or shared perception of supervisor serial socialization tactics (SSSTs) that predicts newcomers’ work engagement and job performance. Additionally, we propose that supervisor intrinsic motivation for newcomer socialization provides a boundary condition on the effects of SSSTs. Using time lagged data from 91 supervisors and their corresponding 218 newcomers, we found that peer newcomers’ shared perceptions of SSSTs are positively and significantly related to newcomer work engagement and in turn, newcomer job performance, even in the presence of SSSTs individual-level effects. Further, we found that supervisor intrinsic motivation towards newcomer socialization moderated the effects of SSSTs on newcomer job performance and the relationship between work engagement and job performance. These findings extend role theory in the socialization context to include novel insights concerning both peer newcomers’ shared perceptions and supervisor intrinsic motivation.

New Perspectives on the Drivers of Newcomer Socialization

The time of early entry, when newcomers experience organizational socialization, is one of the most critical phases of the employer-employee relationship. Decades of research has led to a wealth of knowledge regarding the importance of the socialization process, where newcomers undergo an adjustment period to transform from organizational 'outsiders' to contributing and effective 'insiders'. Yet changes to the contemporary organizational landscape (e.g. increased workforce mobility and alternative work arrangements) continues to generate new research questions, as well as prompting the need to revisit traditional assumptions to broaden our understanding of this important organizational phenomenon. Through four presentations and discussion time with two esteemed scholars in the field, we aim to expand understanding on improving the drivers of successful socialization both from methodological and theoretical points of view. This symposium is wide-ranging in its scope, bringing an international perspective on socialization with contributions from Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Australia with discussants from the United States. Our symposium takes into account the changing nature of work while drawing from rich information gained from previous research on socialization. Specifically, two papers test propositions of the recently developed and increasingly recognized Socialization Resources Theory, one explores organizational socialization in virtual contexts, and another introduces a refined framework and scale for socialization tactics. In doing so, we hope to stimulate meaningful discussions and future investigations into organizational socialization research, in particular how we can tailor socialization practices to employees’ situational circumstances for the benefit of employees and organizations alike. An Investigation of the Relationship between Socialization Tactics and Resources Presenter: Alan Saks; U. of Toronto Presenter: Jamie A. Gruman; U. of Guelph Social Socialization Resources: Associations with Newcomer Adjustment Moderated by Work Autonomy Presenter: Lisa Harris; U. of Auckland Presenter: Helena Cooper-Thomas; Auckland U. of Technology Presenter: Peter Smith; U. of Auckland Presenter: Gordon W. Cheung; U. of Auckland Implications of New Employees’ Strategic Value for their Virtual Organizational Socialization Presenter: Sasa Batistic; Tilburg U. Presenter: Helena Cooper-Thomas; Auckland U. of Technology Presenter: Renata Kenda; Tilburg U. Newcomer Socialization Tactics: Toward a Refined Framework and Scale Presenter: Jane Chong; U. of Western Australia Presenter: Marylene Gagne; Curtin Uni Presenter: Djurre Holtrop; Curtin Uni Presenter: Serena Wee; Singapore Management U. Presenter: Patrick Dunlop; Curtin Business School

NEWCOMERS’ SOCIALIZATION TACTICS AND AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT: INTERPLAY OF PERCEIVED ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT AND PRIOR RELATIONSHIPS

Socialization is a necessary process that helps to manage new talent in the organization in order to survive and thrive in the global market. Numerous studies show that organizational socialization tactics affect workers’ affective commitment. However, the processes through which affective commitment is established during socialization is still unclear. We propose the socialization tactics generate newcomers perceived organizational support (POS) and develop affective commitment. Furthermore, pre-establish links within the organization play a contingency role in the socialization process. Surprisingly, there is no study which theoretically and empirically investigates these referral’s effects on newcomers’ socialization process and its workplace outcomes. We conducted a quantitative sectional survey from 228 newcomers of different organizations. The findings reveal that socialization tactics positively relate to the affective commitment through the mediation of POS and the POS-affective commitment is stronger when prior relationships are high. However, this contingent effect does not empirically support the socialization tactics-POS relationship. The implications are discussed, and future directions are provided.

How socialization tactics relate to role clarity, cohesion, and intentions to return in soccer teams

Socialization tactics for integrating newcomers into sport teams can be key to the evolution of relationships within the group and can lead to positive or negative consequences throughout the season. For this reason, across two studies with distinct contexts, we sought to unpack the mechanisms through which socialization tactics are related to group and individual outcomes. Study 1 examined the relation between socialization tactics and cohesion, and examined role clarity as a potential mediator of this relation with 170 national-level soccer players. We observed a strong positive association between socialization tactics and cohesion, with role clarity mediating the relation between socialization tactics and Group Integration – Task. Study 2 analyzed the relation between socialization tactics (measured at T1) and intentions to return (measured at T2), with cohesion perceptions (measured at T1) as a mediator of this relation. Results from the responses of 214 club-level soccer players indicated that that Individual Attractions to the Group–Task helped explain the socialization tactics-intentions to return relation. As the arrival of new team members is a persistent and consequential occurrence for team dynamics in sport, our results provide insight into how socialization tactics relate to a range of key individual athlete perceptions about their sport experiences.

The Effects of Organizational Socialization Tactics on Newcomer Job Satisfaction and Engagement: Does Core Self-Evaluation Important?

One hundred and fifty-nine new workers in the government sector in Aceh Besar District were sampled to investigate whether their job satisfaction and engagement was influenced by organizational socialization tactics. Core self-evaluation is considered an important factor for newcomers who interact between organizational socialization tactics towards the outputs who were investigated in this study. Primary research data obtained from the results of questionnaires distributed to respondents who previously we have set. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) supported by the AMOS 24 program is used to produce an accurate analysis of the primary data of this study. Based on the results of the analyzed data it was found that job satisfaction and work engagement of newcomers within the government sector organization in Aceh Besar District were influenced by factors of organizational socialization tactics in the organization itself. In addition, the results of the investigation data analysis also found that the core self-evaluation factor is important to be taken into account by newcomers when entering the organization that is now observed. Whether the results of this investigation in other places experienced the same thing, also discussed.

Precursors and Moderators of Newcomer Information Seeking and Socialization Tactics: The Influence of Corporate Cultural Intelligence and Corporate Culture

Precursors and Moderators of Newcomer Information Seeking and Socialization Tactics: The Influence of Corporate Cultural Intelligence and Corporate Culture

헤어샵의 조직사회화 전략이 고객지향성 및 조직유효성에 미치는 영향

서비스 산업의 규모가 커지면서 미용서비스업의 규모 또한 확대되고 있으며 기업 간 경쟁이 심화됨에 따라 전문화 된 인력확보와 효율적인 인적자원의 관리를 통해 기업의 이익을 증대시킬 수 있는 경영전략이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 헤어샵의 조직사회화 전략과 고객지향성 및 조직유효성 간의 영향관계를 알아봄으로써 헤어샵에서 효과적인 조직사회화 전략의 수립을 위한 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다.BR 본 연구의 자료분석은 SPSS 21.0 Version을 이용하여 빈도분석, 탐색적 요인분석, 신뢰도 검증을 위해 Cronbach’s α계수를 산출, 기술통계분석, 상관관계 분석, 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 연구의 대상 및 범위는 헤어샵의 근무하고 있는 종업원을 대상으로 총 313부의 설문을, 리커드 5점 척도를 사용하였다.BR 연구의 주된 내용은 조직사회화 전략, 고객지향성, 조직유효성에 관한 이론적 고찰과 연구의 설계 및 이와 관련한 분석으로 이루어진다.BR 연구결과, 조직사회화 전략의 하위요인 중 사내형식 교육과 사내무형식학습 모두 고객지향성과 조직유효성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 중요한 요인이나 특히 사내형식교육은 더욱 중요한 요인으로 도출되었다. 때문에 헤어샵에서는 교육프로그램을 조직적응에 필요한 정보의 제공, 직무관련지식의 교육, 헤어샵의 가치관 및 목표에 대한 교육 등 세분화하여 프로그램화 할 필요성이 있다.

Understanding career advancement of newcomers from perspective of organizational socialization

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate how to facilitate newcomers’ career advancement within an organization and diminish their intention to quit from the perspective of socialization. In addition, the moderating role of the type of newcomers on the relationship between socialization tactics and career advancement, and consequently, on the mediating effect of newcomers’ proactive socialization behavior, will be examined.Design/methodology/approachLongitudinal survey research was conducted in the tertiary industry in four large cities of China. Regression analysis and bootstrapping method were used to verify the hypothesized relationships.FindingsOrganizational socialization tactics could have positive effects on newcomers’ proactive socialization behavior and promotion prospects. And newcomers’ proactive socialization behavior partly mediates the relationship between organizational socialization tactics and their promotion prospects. The type of newcomers moderates the relationship between proactive socialization behavior and promotion prospects and also the mediation effect of proactive behavior, which says a moderated mediating effect.Practical implicationsEmployers should put more value on college recruitment, making good use of social media tools in particular. And they should also select applicants with proactive personality traits. Finally, a series of structured orientation programs should be implemented for all newcomers.Originality/valueThis study contributes evidence for career advancement as one of the distal socialization outcomes, the moderating role of the type of newcomers on the relationship between socialization and career advancement, and the classification as graduates from school and experienced newcomers from other organizations holds significance to examine newcomers’ socialization.

Satisfying Newcomers’ Needs: The Role of Socialization Tactics and Supervisor Autonomy Support

We investigate a novel approach to newcomer socialization based on self-determination theory (SDT). A core assumption of SDT is that when social contexts support basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness, people are more likely to integrate new experience effectively and thrive in their environment. We sought to examine the role of psychological need support within the context of newcomer socialization and the period of early entry where newcomers learn their new role and become integrated within the organization. We propose that organizational socialization tactics and perceived autonomy-supportive supervision jointly influence newcomers’ basic psychological needs and, in turn, their organizational commitment and withdrawal cognitions. Results from structural equation modeling analyses from a time-lagged study of 489 MBA interns supported our hypothesized model. There were significant indirect effects of institutionalized socialization tactics and supervisor autonomy support on both affective organizational commitment and withdrawal cognitions, via psychological need satisfaction. Use of institutionalized tactics also was negatively associated with interns’ specific need for autonomy, suggesting that individualized tactics may play a role in supporting newcomers’ sense of self-determination. A post hoc moderation analysis further suggested a substitutive pattern in the interaction between supervisor autonomy support and institutionalized tactics, emphasizing the central role that supervisors play in newcomer socialization, particularly when it pertains to newcomers’ psychological need satisfaction. Our results indicate that SDT is a promising theoretical framework for studying newcomer adjustment.

Melayu Social Siasat on The Rakit House Community in Palembang

This study aims to illustrates the social relations carried out by the entity of the Rakit House in Palembang. The social relations happened in this society is considered as forms of seeking survival and ways of maintaining life from changes in economic, cultural and power systems. Such relations are also known for social tactics. The main question of this study is what are the patterns of Malay social relations living in the Palembang Rakit House community. With phenomenological qualitative and sociological theory of figuration and configuration approach, this studi find that the social functions in the entity of the Palembang rakit house are organic functions that are directly felt by the local community such as; social solidarity between residents and communities. the life of the Palembang rakit house entity is one form of locality civilization that is able to live and survive in the social system

An assessment of port and shipping line relationships: the value of relationship marketing

ABSTRACTIntense competition and continuously changing variables in macro and micro environments compel ports to reinvent themselves and seek ways to gain a competitive advantage. One way to do so is to obtain and retain loyal customers by creating strong bonds and customer satisfaction. This study examined relationship marketing as a tool for developing and sustaining relationships in port businesses. The aim was to investigate if it is worth investing in and conducting a relationship marketing strategy in the port industry, specifically for affiliations between container terminals and shipping lines, by measuring the effects on customer relationship performance indicators. The findings indicate that ports can achieve positive impacts on customer loyalty, satisfaction, and word-of-mouth promotion by using social, structural, and financial relationship marketing tactics.

Health-Related Social Control Influences the Physical Activity of College Students

Objective: To examine the impact of health-related social control tactics on the physical activity behavior of college students. Participants: 110 undergraduates (74% women) recorded their naturalistic behavior across eight consecutive days between March and May of 2010. Methods: A short-term longitudinal daily diary survey examined daily self-reports of received health-related social control (the direct regulation of a target’s health behaviors by a social partner) and minutes engaged in physical activity. Results: Multilevel modeling according to a two-level structure in which observations (Level 1) were nested within individuals (Level 2) revealed that positive social control for exercise (e.g., encouragement) had a positive effect on physical activity participation, both within-persons (intra-individual level) and between-persons (inter-individual level). Negative social control (e.g., nagging) had no effect on physical activity participation. Conclusion: The present results suggest that individuals should employ positive social control tactics when attempting to enhance the physical activity behaviors of college students.