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| Type | Conference Presentation |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Because first impressions last: How leader traits shape newcomers’ social exclusion and commitment |
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| Presentation Type | paper |
| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Event Title | 17th European Academy of Management Conference |
| Event Type | conference |
| Event Location | Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Event Start Date | June 21 - 2017 |
| Event End Date | June 24 - 2017 |
| Abstract Text | Leaders and team members are the most central reference persons for organizational newcomers. However, when entering an organization, time constraints and limited cognitive resources often force newcomers to make broad judgments of their new social environment at work, which can create lasting consequences. Thus, we apply two fundamental dimensions of social judgments – competence and warmth – to explore the interplay between newcomers’ perceptions of leaders’ traits, their experiences of social exclusion, and their organizational commitment. We test our hypotheses using data from 438 first-year students and their 32 team leaders who were randomly assigned to teams for an orientation day at a large university in Western Europe. We find that leader competence is positively associated with perceptions of competence-based exclusion, whereas leader warmth is negatively associated with both competence- and warmth-based exclusion. Moreover, warmth-based exclusion – but not competence-based exclusion – is negatively associated with newcomers’ organizational commitment. |
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