Proactivity During Organizational Entry: The Role of Desire for Control

This study described the various ways that newcomers proactively attempt to gain feelings of personal control during organizational entry and examined their longitudinal effects on self-reported performance and satisfaction in a sample of organizational newcomers. The results suggest that individual...

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Business Students
Control
Desire
Employee Characteristics
Employee empowerment
Employment
Entry
Factors
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Male
Motivation. Job satisfaction. Attitude
Occupational psychology
Organizational Behavior
Organizational behaviour
Organizations
Proactivity
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Socialization
Statistical analysis
Studies
Working life
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