| Abstract [eng] |
The aim of the study was to analyze mentor‘s role in new employee socialization. 373 newcomers and 56 mentors took part in the study. Newcomers filled the questionnaires evaluating their socialization (amount of different information, job related state anxiety, feeling of insider, perceived professional competency, evaluation of job and organization), characteristics of new employee (age, highest educational level attained, work experience, current position) and nearest surroundings (leadership style, leader-member exchange (LMX) quality, work group climate, group size and presence of mentorship programs). Mentors had to fill the questionnaires measuring organizational commitment, job satisfaction, work motivation, mentoring experience and professional, social and andragogical competencies. The results show that LMX, work group climate, group size and mentorship programs are the factors allowing to differentiate newcomers by the level of their socialization (high or low). The organizational socialization of employees who had and who had no mentors is very similar. Yet if employees had no mentors, the responsibility and workload sharing the information felt on their direct executives. High quality LMX, directive leadership style and friendly work group climate accelerate new employee socialization and these factors are significally more important when new employees have no mentors. Professional and social competencies of mentors and their organizational commitment are the characteristics most related with new employee socialization. |
