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- Title
Communication and Member Disengagement in Planned Organizational Exit.
- Authors
Davis, CourtneyWong; Myers, KarenKroman
- Abstract
The processes by which members prepare to exit organizations have received little attention in socialization research. This study investigates an important area of organizational exits—members' planned exit—in which the time of exit is predetermined at entry. Utilizing 31 interviews with departing sorority members at two universities, we examine communication and organizational identification as members disengage. The data and resulting Model of Planned Organizational Exit demonstrate that members transition across three substages—Focus on the Future, Focus on the Present, and Focus on the Past and Future—characterized by different critical incidents, participation, communication between members, and anticipatory deidentification.
- Subjects
ORGANIZATIONAL research; ORGANIZATIONAL identification; SOCIALIZATION research; PSYCHOLOGICAL disengagement; ORGANIZATIONAL communication; EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2012, Vol 76, Issue 2, p194
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2011.651250