Title Informacijos įgijimo skirtumai tarp mentorius turėjusių ir jų neturėjusių naujų darbuotojų /
Another Title Difference of information acquisition between new employees’ who had and who had no mentors.
Authors Žukauskaitė, Irena ; Bagdžiūnienė, Dalia
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Is Part of International journal of psychology: a biopsychosocial approach = Tarptautinis psichologijos žurnalas: biopsichosocialinis požiūris.. Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla. 2012, nr. 10, p. 9-26.. ISSN 1941-7233
Keywords [eng] New employees ; Organizational socialization ; Information seeking ; Mentor
Abstract [eng] The mentorship becomes a wildly used measure of personnel management seeking to accelerate the socialization of new employees. Yet the studies provide contradictory results about the e-ectiveness of mentorship in this process. The aim of the paper is to analyse the di-erence in acquisition of information between new employees who had and who had no mentors during the organizational socialization. Methods. The study took part in six large organizations, having subdivisions in di-erent regions of Lithuania. 373 newly recruited employees, working in customer service or managerial positions participated in the study. 232)new employees (62.2%) had mentors during trial period. Newcomers +lled in the questionnaires evaluating amount and sources of di-erent information (Morrison, 1995), the information they lack and sociodemographic characteristics. Results. New employees acquire much referent information and lack appraisal information during the trial period. Newcomers who had mentors possessed more normative and organizational information comparing with those employees who had no mentors. The mentor provides more than 50% of technical and referent information and more than 40% of normative and organizational information. Direct executive gives signi+cantly more information for new employees who had no mentors, while the amount of information which was derived from co-workers or which was found by a new employee him/herself did not di-er. Conclusion. The appointment of a mentor is an important personnel management tool, minimizing the workload of the executive and assuring the imparting of primary information for newcomers.
Published Kaunas : Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012