Organizational factors that contribute to youth workers' promotion of youth voice

Maletsky, Lisa D.; Evans, William

doi:10.1080/0145935x.2016.1204538

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“…This finding also has some practical implications; for instance, supportive feedback from organizational insiders (Saks and Gruman, 2014), access to guidance from experienced role models (Cable and Parsons, 2001), and the supports from peers and other social relationships (Chen and Yao, 2015) are critical factors for matching their perception with that of the organization, job, and co-workers. In the field of youth work, it is necessary for employees to have faith that they can maximize the positive aspects of youth (called positive youth development) as well as have to build supportive youth–adult partnership (Maletsky and Evans, 2017) but without continuous and institutionalized interpersonal relationships with their coworkers or other experienced insiders (i.e. institutionalized social tactics), it is difficult to formalize the faith in a timed period.…”

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Socialization tactics and youth worker adjustment: the mediating roles of fit perceptions

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify how three types of socialization tactics – content, context and social tactics – influence fit perceptions, and then how three types of fit perceptions – person–organization (P–O) fit, person–job (P–J) fit and person–group (P–G) fit – mediate the relationship between socialization tactics and positive socialization outcomes: organizational commitment, job satisfaction and intent to quit. Design/methodology/approach Responses from participants – 207 Korean youth workers – were subjected to ordinary least squares path analyses with bootstrapping to test the hypotheses. Findings First, this study found that socialization tactics promote youth workers’ perceived fit with organization, job, and people. Then, the mediation model showed that content socialization tactics do not influence dependent variables (socialization outcomes) through mediators (fits), while context tactics influence through perceived P–O fit and P–G fit for organizational commitment only, and social tactics through perceived P–O, P–J and P–G fit for organizational commitment, job satisfaction and intent to quit. Research limitations/implications The results of this study suggest that institutionalized social tactics can serve as a key socialization method for new employees. In addition, youth organizations need to implement jointly formal and collective training programs with follow-up social workplace learning (e.g. mentoring and study circle) to help newcomers share the values of the organization and integrate well into it. Originality/value This study contributes for understanding the socialization process of new employees working in educational and social work fields and role of fit perception between socialization tactics and their career successes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socialization tactics and youth worker adjustment: the mediating roles of fit perceptions

2018

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Organizational factors that contribute to youth workers' promotion of youth voice

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Socialization tactics and youth worker adjustment: the mediating roles of fit perceptions

Socialization tactics and youth worker adjustment: the mediating roles of fit perceptions

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