Аннотация:Early organizational socialization research focused primarily on the organization's perspective, with individuals assumed to be passive recipients of information. In recent years, scholars began acknowledging individual organizational members as active participants in the process, voluntarily seeking information from multiple sources to help them acclimate to their roles, but information seeking during the anticipatory phase of socialization remains largely unexplored in the literature. This essay reviews existing organizational information-seeking research and its key contributions to socialization knowledge using two primary frameworks identified in the literature: feedback seeking and the model of newcomer information seeking. Potential applicability of findings to anticipatory socialization is discussed, revealing multiple promising directions for future information-seeking research.
