Team Receptivity to Newcomers: Five Decades of Evidence and Future Research Themes
回顾了1960年至2012年间关于团队如何适应新成员的实证研究，提出团队反思、知识利用和新成员接纳三个接纳度成分，并指出同时提升三者有助于团队持续绩效，为管理者和研究者提供了多层面模型。
Reviews of research on newcomers mostly address socialization processes, focusing on individual adjustment. This article takes a different approach by examining the ways in which teams adapt to newcomers, indicating team receptivity. We review the empirical research published over the last five decades (1960–June 2012) that examines the antecedents of three team receptivity components—team reflection, team knowledge utilization, and newcomer acceptance—across different research disciplines and team settings. Drawing on this literature, we propose that team receptivity to newcomers can have positive consequences for sustained team performance, provided that team reflection and team knowledge utilization coincide with newcomer acceptance. We challenge scholars to tackle these three components simultaneously and provide methodological recommendations for doing so. To facilitate such efforts, we present a conceptual multi-level model specifying team, oldtimer, and newcomer characteristics that contribute to team receptivity and are amenable to managerial intervention.