Organizational Socialization of Sojourners in Cross-culture Context – A Study on Workers from Northeast Asian in the United States of America

Abstract

This study intended to explore sojourners’ organizational socialization in a cross-cultural context, as well as to find out what kinds of feeling sojourners have about organizational socialization and examine if there is any differences between the process of cross-cultural and domestic newcomers’ organizational socialization. The following questions were proposed by this study, (1) the organizational socialization process of sojourners in the U.S.A., (2) socialization tactics took by the sojourners’ organizations, (3) sojourners’ psychological experiences during their organizational socialization process, and (4) difficulties caused by different cultures on the sojourner’s organizational socialization process. The methodologies adopted in this research were first, interview to sojourners and their coworkers; second, two-month observation in a student restaurant. The research findings showed (1) sojourners’ organizational socialization tactics, process, and challenges were found, (2) the difference existed mainly in encounter stage, (3) the difference between sojourners’ and domestic workers’ organizationsocialization was the changes to domestic workers, (4) sojourners might have different acculturation policy from expatriates.

This study intended to explore sojourners’ organizational socialization in a cross-cultural context, as well as to find out what kinds of feeling sojourners have about organizational socialization and examine if there is any differences between the process of cross-cultural and domestic newcomers’ organizational socialization. The following questions were proposed by this study, (1) the organizational socialization process of sojourners in the U.S.A., (2) socialization tactics took by the sojourners’ organizations, (3) sojourners’ psychological experiences during their organizational socialization process, and (4) difficulties caused by different cultures on the sojourner’s organizational socialization process. The methodologies adopted in this research were first, interview to sojourners and their coworkers; second, two-month observation in a student restaurant. The research findings showed (1) sojourners’ organizational socialization tactics, process, and challenges were found, (2) the difference existed mainly in encounter stage, (3) the difference between sojourners’ and domestic workers’ organization socialization was the changes to domestic workers, (4) sojourners might have different acculturation policy from expatriates.