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Being a newcomer is a great challenge we all face.
It creates uncertainty, along with a need for new
knowledge and skills in order to master a new job.
This is the focus of my thesis - how newcomers learn
to master their new job and how these learning
processes can be characterized. Established
colleagues as important knowledge sources is
central, and by using the term role model, newcomers
access to tacit and explicit knowledge is
recognized. In relation to understanding learning as
social and cultural, and not just limited to
individual knowledge aquisition.
The thesis also recognizes the need for
understanding organizational socialization as
learning and the important of informal learning
processes and colleagues informally bounding in
social practices at work. Thus, the thesis represent
a contribution of understanding newcomers learning
as both individual, social, cultural and contextual.
In doing so, colleagues as knowledge sources in
order to learn tacit knowledge, is crucial to
newcomers learning.

How newcomers use role models in organizational socialization: Perspectives on learning and organizational socialization