סמינר בהתנהגות ארגונית

ABSTRACT

Organizational veterans and external stakeholders such as clients often play an important, informal role in newcomer socialization, influencing newcomer cognition and behavior, and providing learning opportunities and social support that facilitate employee adjustment and performance enhancement. However, such social influences may also lead to the adoption of risky behaviors that can be detrimental to newcomer health and organizational effectiveness. Using multi-source, multi-level, and longitudinal data, we demonstrate that the alcohol use norms of both organizational veterans and clients are significantly associated with the frequency of work-based heavy drinking among newcomers in sales and client-service teams. We also demonstrate that these positive relationships are mediated by newcomers’ performance drinking motives, suggesting that veteran and client norms signal to newcomers that drinking alcohol is an effective and legitimate means by which to improve job performance. Finally, we find that the frequency of work-based heavy drinking is positively related to newcomer alcohol misuse and mediates the positive relationship between performance drinking motives and newcomer alcohol misuse. Implications for newcomer socialization theory and onboarding practice are discussed.