PROACTIVITY DURING ORGANIZATIONAL ENTRY - THE ROLE OF DESIRE FOR CONTROL

This study described the various ways that newcomers proactively attem pt to gain feelings of personal control during organizational entry an d examined their longitudinal effects on self-reported performance and satisfaction in a sample of organizational newcomers. The results sug gest that individuals engage in proactive activities such as informati on and feedback seeking, relationship building, job-change negotiating , and positive framing during entry and that individual differences in desired control were related to 6 proactive entry tactics. However, o nly some of these tactics were related to self-reported performance an d job satisfaction.