Helping Others Makes Me Fit Better: Effects

of Helping Behavior By Newcomers and Co-

worker-attributed Motives on Newcomers’
Adjustment

Presenter Name: Lucia

The Topic: Helping Others Make
Employees More Fit
• Newcomers' willingness to help others has a positive
effect on their long-term behavior (i.e., their
commitment to the organization).
• It leads them to master their tasks and engage socially
with their co-workers.
• When employees believe that newcomers are helping
out of a genuine desire to support others, their
immediate adjustment outcomes are superior to when
they believe that newcomers are assisting to make a
good impression.
• Once the newcomer integrated with the group, everyone
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Interesting Information

• Newcomers benefit from others by receiving resources

like advice, opinions, instruction, and enlightenment.
• Relationship-building activities from newcomers are
more favorably associated to information-sharing
behaviors from mentors when they see a profound
resemblance with the newcomers.
• Mentor information exchange improves newcomer
adjustment (i.e., role clarity and job performance)
• Corporate socialization helps newcomers adapt to their
workplace and become insiders.
• Newcomers need resources to fit in
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 How Does This Information
Help Me ?
• To understand that:
• Newcomers helping behavior improves their task mastery.
• Newcomers require resources to adjust.
• Engagement and organizational methods help newcomers to access
resources.
• Application of “ the Social Exchange Theory” helps newcomers to fit
in quickly and master their role.
• To be able to fit in as an employee and to help newcomers to fit in
when I become an experienced employee or manager.

“Social Exchange Theory”

A person for whom another has done a service is
expected to express his gratitude and return a
service when the occasion arises"
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How Can it be applied
to Improve My Life
• When I become a new employee, I will try to engage and
socialize with colleagues because socialization process
makes cohesion of the team stronger.
• Socialization will facilitate conveying for me any task
relevant information.
• If I become in administrative position, I will apply this on
newcomers to help them adapt, take their time to learn
and master their role.
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 Further Information
About This Topic
• Helping behaviors facilitate the transfer of
resources.
• This helps newcomers achieve high levels of
task mastery.
• Improves social integration.
• Newcomers may receive high levels of
psychological resources (like trust, honesty,
and encouragement)
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 Organizational
Socialization Process

A newcomer can collect information

about the acceptable and desired patterns
of behavior at work.
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 Thank you

Lucia

lucia@gmail.com

Website

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 References

Jia, H., Zhong, R., & Xie, X. (2021). Helping others makes me fit better: effects of
helping behavior by newcomers and coworker-attributed motives on newcomers’
adjustment. Journal of Business & Psychology, 36(3), 401–416.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09680-w
Moser, K. (2017). Socialization Process of a Newcomer and the Role of Co-Workers,
Österreich, available from
https://epub.jku.at/obvulihs/download/pdf/1960994?originalFilename=true
Zheng, Y, Zheng, X, Wu, C-H orcid.org/0000-0002-8011-6323 et al. (2 more authors)
(2021) Newcomers' relationship-building behavior, mentors' information sharing, and
newcomer adjustment: The moderating effects of perceived mentors' and newcomers'
deep similarity. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 125. 103519. ISSN 0001-8791
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2020.103519

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