Newly Screen-ed: The Interference of the Digital Work Environment on New Young Professionals
(2021) BUSN49 20211Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- The purpose of this thesis is to provide insight into the effects an entirely digital work environment may have on organizational socialization of young professionals, and the interactions they are able to have as well as the networks they are able to form. The thesis draws on the theoretical framework of organizational socialization by Bauer and Erdogan (2011) and combines it with the topics of interaction frequency and socialization rate (Reichers, 1987). Through this combination of frameworks, the aim is to understand how the entirely digital format has impacted the young professionals in their organizational socialization. The data for the thesis was obtained by conducting semi-structured interviews with thirteen young professionals... (More)
- The purpose of this thesis is to provide insight into the effects an entirely digital work environment may have on organizational socialization of young professionals, and the interactions they are able to have as well as the networks they are able to form. The thesis draws on the theoretical framework of organizational socialization by Bauer and Erdogan (2011) and combines it with the topics of interaction frequency and socialization rate (Reichers, 1987). Through this combination of frameworks, the aim is to understand how the entirely digital format has impacted the young professionals in their organizational socialization. The data for the thesis was obtained by conducting semi-structured interviews with thirteen young professionals that have embarked on their first job out of college under work-from-home restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collected through the interviews was sorted at first using the theoretical subcategories of new employee characteristics, new employee behavior, and organizational effects. Each sorted category was then revisited and categorized based on the development of disturbances generated in the digital context. These disturbances were then linked back to the framework to comprehend how it was affected. The impacts the entirely digital work environment has on organizational socialization can be sorted into two different categories to describe the digital difficulties: learning and interaction. These difficulties in turn, make it more challenging to reach the stage of adjustment. (Less)
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- author
- Taheri, Annika LU and Grälls, Maja LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Young professionals, organizational socialization, interaction frequency, networking, digital work environment
- language
- English
- id
- 9055192
- date added to LUP
- 2021-06-22 14:13:46
- date last changed
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abstract = {{The purpose of this thesis is to provide insight into the effects an entirely digital work environment may have on organizational socialization of young professionals, and the interactions they are able to have as well as the networks they are able to form. The thesis draws on the theoretical framework of organizational socialization by Bauer and Erdogan (2011) and combines it with the topics of interaction frequency and socialization rate (Reichers, 1987). Through this combination of frameworks, the aim is to understand how the entirely digital format has impacted the young professionals in their organizational socialization. The data for the thesis was obtained by conducting semi-structured interviews with thirteen young professionals that have embarked on their first job out of college under work-from-home restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The data collected through the interviews was sorted at first using the theoretical subcategories of new employee characteristics, new employee behavior, and organizational effects. Each sorted category was then revisited and categorized based on the development of disturbances generated in the digital context. These disturbances were then linked back to the framework to comprehend how it was affected. The impacts the entirely digital work environment has on organizational socialization can be sorted into two different categories to describe the digital difficulties: learning and interaction. These difficulties in turn, make it more challenging to reach the stage of adjustment.}},
author = {{Taheri, Annika and Grälls, Maja}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Newly Screen-ed: The Interference of the Digital Work Environment on New Young Professionals}},
year = {{2021}},
}