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Golden Passports: Managerial Socialization and Graduate Education
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 6, Number 4, Summer 1983
- pp. 435-455
- 10.1353/rhe.1983.0016
- Article
- Additional Information
Research in organizational socialization is typically more concerned with settings where recruits are treated more harshly than with settings where they are treated well. This paper concerns the latter and argues that such settings allow recruits to import skills, knowledge and values—a “culture of orientation.” The process is described in two radically different graduate school settings.