Contribution to the Research of Organizational Socialization: The Importance of Interviews in Anticipatory Stage

Abstract

This paper discusses the importance and effects of employees' organizational socialization as a theoretical scientific discipline and practice-oriented activity. Briefly, this paper provides an overview of distinguished authors' ideas on the content, methods and different viewpoints regarding the criteria in evaluating the success of organizational socialization. The research was directed towards the anticipatory phase of organizational socialization. It was focused on the attitude towards a job interview, the individual preparation of research participants for interviews and their behaviour during the interview. The results of correlation analysis have shown that irrespective of the outcome to which it leads, the interview-related behaviour is unaffected because the individual invests the same effort, regardless of whether it will result in a job or not.