While much organizational socialization occurs through interpersonal interactions, evidence regarding how these processes unfold over time has not been forthcoming. Results from a 14-wave longitudinal study with a sample of 264 organizational newcomers show that support of newcomers from coworkers and supervisors declines within the first 90 days of employment. Early support and undermining had...

Nietzsche's injunction to examine “the value of values” can be heard in a pragmatic key, as inviting us consider not whether certain values are true, but what they do for us. This oddly neglected approach Nietzsche now receives authoritative support from Bernard Reginster's new book, which offers compelling and notably cohesive interpretation On the Genealogy Morality. In this essay, I reconstr...

This study examined associations between characteristics of teenagers' relationships with their mothers and their later socializing behavior and peer relationship quality online. At age 13, teenagers and their mothers participated in an interaction in which mothers' and adolescents' behavior undermining autonomy and relatedness was observed, and indicators of teens' depressive symptoms and soci...

Poverty has long been an endemic problem in developing countries. The role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in fostering or undermining development within poor local communities in developing countries has been a subject of intensive debate within academic and practitioner circles. This paper explores the contribution to poverty alleviation from MNCs in two South East Asian countries, Lao P...

The undermining should split the muscle at the middle, and the same amount of muscle should be left in front of and behind the implant. The point X is found introducing a finger into the muscle incision 2–3 cm deeper. This is half of the thickness of the muscle and this is our plane of undermining. Point Y is in the iliac crest 5 cm beyond the upper-posterior iliac spine and is our superior lim...

The undermining effect of extrinsic reward on intrinsic motivation remains unproven. The key unresolved issues are construct invalidity (all four definitions are unproved and two are illogical); measurement unreliability (the free-choice measure requires unreliable, subjective judgments to infer intrinsic motivation); inadequate experimental controls (negative affect and novelty, not cognitive ...