Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter Ch. 8: Onboarding, Social Influence, Organizational Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 2181A/B
• Professor: Tony Francolini

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Social influence, socialization and organizational culture chapter 8. Understand the difference between information dependence and effect dependence. Information dependence: gives others the opportunity to influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions via the signals they send to us: the process through which this occurs is explained by social information processing theory. According to social information processing theory, organizational members use information from others to interpret events and develop expectations about appropriate and acceptable attitudes and behaviours. Differentiate compliance, identification, and internalization as motives for social conformity. Compliance: is the simplest, most direct motive for conformity to group norms. It occurs because a member wishes to acquire rewards from the group and avoid punishment. Although the complying individual adjusts his or her behaviour to the norm, he or she does not really subscribe to the beliefs, values, and attitudes that underlie the norm.