Engaging with the past: Discerning meaning in organizational imprints
通过对一家家庭医疗机构的实地研究，揭示了新员工如何发现并解读组织印记，进而通过任务执行、情感承诺和选择偏好将其个性化。
While scholars have explained how organizational imprints evolve, they have yet to explore how newcomers discern the meaning of existing imprints. Drawing on a field study of a home healthcare agency, we demonstrate how newcomers’ discovery of imprints spurs an assessment process through which they personalize the imprints before enacting them through task performance, affective commitment, and preferences for selection. We discuss the implications of our work for scholars seeking to better understand the cognitive and social-cognitive processes underlying newcomers’ experiences with organizational imprints and the ways in which such engagement might shape their persistence.