Changes in New Employee Behavior

One of the most obvious differences in the behavior of a new employee over the initial period of employment is their information seeking behavior. In order to deal with the uncertainty and lack of familiarity associated with entry into a new job, a new employee is likely to engage in a range of information seeking behaviors. As 

Adaption and familiarization will also be paralleled by other changes in the new employee s behavior. Some of these changes will be the result of learning how tasks are performed, and some may be adjustments, or changes, to the way the new employee has performed in the past. The latter is more likely when a new employee with previous work experience arrives and discovers that a job they have performed previously in another organization, with a different group of co-workers, is performed differentiy in the new situation. The new employee essentially has to unlearn task behaviors, and adjust or adapt to how the tasks are performed in the new situation. 

While it is clear that a new employee s behavior will (more or less) go through a period of adjustment in their initial employment period, itis also likely that their verbal behavior will change (also see Chap. 4. sect. 4.2.9). It is well established that employees voicing of safety concerns is an important aspect of workplace safety (Hofmann and Morgeson 1999 Kath et al. 2010). To a considerable extent the development of voicing behaviors will be dependent on the development of trust relationships with supervisors (Conchie et al. 2012), and with co-workers 

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