In organization, socialization processes in organization is important that allow organization members to understand an occupation and learn about the organization.
According to the Anker (2010), socialization is processes that help new-comers to understand the content and information of an organization, which will help them to adapt in the organization.
The context and information can be derived by newcomers include the rules and regulations, people, background, and the goal and values of an organization.
As an international student, when I first arrived in University of South Australia, there are numbers of things I need to learn through socialization in order to adapt in the university. For instance, a friend of mine who have been in Adelaide and she transferred to Unisa earlier than me, she did helps me a lot in acquire information about the campus, such as the availability of campus facilities, how to overrides full classes, update student ID card in order to get 24 hours access and so forth.
She guided and provided all the information throughout our conversations and meeting up, which can be seen as socialization processes. Without socializing communication, I might not know that I could access the computer pool in 7 days 24 hours.
Therefore, similar to socialization in organization, employees need to first communicate with interviewer in order to understand what is the role’s responsibility, then, new employed individuals can seek information through questions, conversations and observations.
Throughout the information seeking tactics, new-comers can learn and understand a company project and goal, how the people do things, what kinds of communication channel that the organization members prefer to communicate (written or verbal) and so forth.
Clearly, socialization in organization can be seen as a learning and information seeking processes.
References:
Miller, K 2012, Organization Communication, 6th edn, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Boston.
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