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Group Rites and Trainer Wrongs in Employee Experiences of Job Change

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  • Jerry Hallier
  • Philip James

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This paper investigates how group‐controlled transition rites in an air traffic control organization are experienced by job changers and those responsible for socializing newcomers on behalf of the work group and unit. Contrary to earlier functionalist accounts, these admission rites were neither fully understood as intended nor accepted as legitimate by job changers. The findings indicate that shared meanings between newcomers and `‘lders’ may not be necessary if such rites are to be accepted as an essential feature of the process of granting or withholding membership of the unit. More crucial to their acceptability is whether or not job changers believe that elders are fully acting in the interests of the group and unit. We show that the legitimacy of such socialization practices is subject to decay from organization‐wide restructuring which weakens units' social coherence and gives rise to doubts about the integrity of those members who assume an elder role. The implication of these findings is that group‐controlled transition rites emerge where management has no choice but to delegate features of work control to the group. Equally, if the legitimacy of such group‐level practices is undermined by organizational changes, it is unlikely that this form of socialization can be rectified by management intervention

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  • Jerry Hallier & Philip James, 1999. "Group Rites and Trainer Wrongs in Employee Experiences of Job Change," Journal of Management Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(1), pages 45-67, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:jomstd:v:36:y:1999:i:1:p:45-67
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-6486.00125
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    1. Serge Perrot, 2009. "Echelles de mesure de la socialisation organisationnelle: Etat de l'art et perspectives," Post-Print halshs-00743180, HAL.
    2. Fábio Augusto Reis Gomes & Cleomar Gomes da Silva, 2006. "Hysteresis Vs. Nairu And Convergence Vs. Divergence: The Behavior Of Regional Unemployment Rates In Brazil," Anais do XXXIV Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 34th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 161, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    3. Islam, Gazi, 2008. "Rituals in Organizations: A Review and Expansion of Current Theory," Insper Working Papers wpe_136, Insper Working Paper, Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa.

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