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Before joining a new employer, many people have preconceived ideas of what the organization stands for in terms of values, mission, and ethical orientation. On progressing through the application, selection, and induction processes and increasingly embedded in the organization’s structure and function, they become exposed to the existential reality behind the overt image. As they are exposed to this reality in the company socialization process overtime, the perceived ethical fit/misfit to their new employer becomes shaped and crystallized. This is regarded as a dynamic process over an unspecified period of time, although the organizational socialization sha** process and the employee’s awareness of ethical misfit that emerges from this is likely to show itself earlier rather than later in the employees company career, it does sometimes occur later when he or she is confronted by action or behavior incompatible with his or her...
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Coldwell, D. (2018). Company Socialization and Ethical Fit. In: Poff, D., Michalos, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23514-1_125-1
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