| According to Van Maanen and Schein (1979), what people learn about their work role in organizations is often a direct result of how they learn it. Organizational socialization is the process through which individuals are transformed from outsiders to participating, effective members of the organization. It is the primary vehicle through which an organization's values, norms, required behaviors and other elements of the organization's culture are taught to new members.; The socialization typology of Van Maanen and Schein (1979) was used to develop an empirical relationship between organizational socialization tactics and culture. Data was collected from 262 participants, mainly engineers, scientists and technicians, in twelve high technology oriented organizations.; The analysis determined that four of the socialization tactics---variable, random, serial, and investiture formed positive correlations with organizational culture. The investiture tactic was determined to be the most influential tactic in predicting culture. However, based on the magnitude of the correlations, all the relationships were relatively weak. |
