ERIC Number: EJ1335962
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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Connecting with New Business Students: The Role of Socialization and Core Self-Evaluations in University Identification
Medina-Craven, Michele N.; Davis, Sara E.; Sexton, S. Michael; Cooper, Danielle
Studies in Higher Education, v47 n3 p469-485 2022
Organizational identification has gained popularity in the organizational sciences and has important implications for the experiences of new undergraduate business students. Researchers have focused largely on how characteristics of organizations influence organizational identification, but limited work has explored how characteristics of the environment and the individual work together. In the present study, relationships between the dimensions of organizational socialization of undergraduate business students and university identification are investigated. Further, students' core self-evaluations are explored as a moderator of the relationship between socialization dimensions and organizational identification. The data for the study was collected from 209 entering-college first-year undergraduates in an introductory business course in the United States. We found that two socialization dimensions, people and organizational goals and values, are positively related to university identification. Furthermore, core self-evaluations interact with the history dimension to influence university identification, such that history socialization has a positive effect on university identification for students with high core self-evaluations but not for those with low core self-evaluations. Discussion, implications, and future research areas are included.
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Socialization, Student College Relationship, Identification (Psychology), College Freshmen, Introductory Courses, Self Efficacy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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