Organizational Socialization and Crisis Context
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چکیده
The goal of this article is to highlight the dimensions characterizing the socialization process in a crisis context. Based on the definition of organizational socialization advanced by Van Maanen and Schein (1979) and again employed by Jones (1986), a crisis is presented as a passage from a so-called “normal” situation to an “exceptional” situation. A crisis represents a socialization context in the sense that it is a novel situation in which actors must develop a different manner of mobilizing their knowledge, employing their skills and practicing their trade or profession. Certain findings emerging from the literature on organizational socialization will be discussed, as will the testimony of actors who participated in managing the Quebec 1998 ice storm crisis. We hope that this exploratory study’s data will give rise to fruitful interaction between the field of organizational socialization and that of crisis management.
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