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ERIC Number: EJ539442
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-1546
Organizational Socialization in Higher Education.
Tierney, William J.
Journal of Higher Education, v68 n1 p1-16 Jan-Feb 1997
Reports a two-year study of college faculty promotion and tenure involving interviews, with over 300 individuals, focused on the socialization processes for tenure-track faculty in four-year institutions. Modernist views of socialization are challenged, and a schema based on postmodernism is proposed for examining organizational socialization. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Promotion, Higher Education, Interviews, Organizational Climate, Postmodernism, Socialization, Teacher Attitudes, Tenure
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Professional Socialization