The Impact of Realistic Job Previews on the Adjustment of New Employees

Abstract

Although it has been shown that new employees who receive realistic information about an organization prior to their entry into it tend to have lower turnover than those who receive positively-biased information, little is known about the process through which this realistic information affects turnover. The present study investigated three possible psychological processes underlying the use of realistic job previews in a field experiment with 320 new employees of a retail food chain. Three psychological processes through which RJPs were hypothesized to lower turnover were suggested. These were: 1) lowered expectations and increased job satisfaction, 2) improved ability to cope with unpleasant job circumstances when they were expected, and 3) the creation of a perceptual set of greater openness and honesty within the company. None of the hypotheses received strong support. The results were discussed primarily in terms of general lack of support for the effects of met expectations on job satisfaction.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA138263

Entities

People

  • Bernard L. Dugoni
  • Daniel R. Ilgen

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Applied Psychology
  • Cognition
  • Environment
  • Food Chains
  • Job Satisfaction
  • Job Training
  • Management Personnel
  • Materials
  • Military Training
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychology
  • Regression Analysis
  • Social Sciences
  • Supervisors
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

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  • Theoretical Analysis.