| Organizational assimilation (OA) refers to the process by which socializees or employees become integrated into their employment organization following their organizational entry. From an integrative perspective, this study proposed and tested a new mediation model of OA that posits that socializees' success-related OA consequences in terms of higher overall job satisfaction, higher overall job performance, and lower turnover intentions are functions of causal antecedents, including organizational socialization tactics and core self-evaluation, and mediators (i.e., proposed OA adjustment dimensions) comprising task mastery, fitting in, standing out, role negotiation, and organizational identification. The study sought to explore and confirm the proposed OA adjustment dimensions, and to test the effects of the proposed antecedents on the consequences both directly and indirectly.;A pilot and a main study were conducted in which respondents filled out self-administered questionnaires in 2009. Specifically eight star-rated, moderately priced, and luxury hotels/resorts on China's Hainan Island participated in the pilot study, yielding 481 usable questionnaires copies; and 19 star-rated luxury hotels/resorts participated in the main study, yielding 704 usable copies whose reported organizational tenures were between 1 month and 2 years. The bootstrap SEM (structural equation modeling) was employed across both samples to develop both measurement and structural models. Empirical results indicated that, in the main study, both the measurement model of the newly proposed five OA adjustment dimensions and the structural model involving all the proposed adjustment dimensions as well as their causal antecedents and consequences, exhibited well acceptable levels of model fit. The study's findings as well as their theoretical and practical implications are discussed within OA context, in general, and human resource development practices in the hospitality and tourism organizations, in particular.;Key Words: Organizational Assimilation; Adjustment; Organizational Socialization; Organizational Socialization Tactics; Core Self-evaluation; Job Satisfaction; Job Performance; Turnover Intentions; Hotels; Hainan, China... |
