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According to Chatman (2003), “socialization is the process by which an individual comes to understand the values, abilities, expected behaviors, and social knowledge that are essential for assuming an organization role and participating as an organization member” (p. 27). At the new organization, you must rely on socializing people to integrate both teams. It is of upmost importance to ensure that employees bond with one another while at the same time acquiring cultural knowledge (Chatman 2003). You must utilize all the available socialization tools, which are stories, rituals, and …show more content…
28). The reward system must incentive desired behaviors of the organization members, as such it must be directed to two different groups, the musicians, and the administrative staff. My advice is to establish a reward system for musicians that will incentive teamwork and individual excellence to motivate high performance. For example, to incentive teamwork within artists, we could provide tickets to sports events when achieving performance benchmarks. To motivate individual excellence of artists, we could have monthly votes to pick an artist as the winner of a “Grammy Award.” The people involved in the voting will be the artists and as result, they will be empowered. The “Grammy Award” will be a foundation to develop norms that will help strengthen peer performance control. On the other hand, we have administrative staff members, and they also should have rewards directed to them to cultivate a culture of high performance. For example, you could empower administrative staff to pick themselves the employee of the month. You could have a symbol, such as a trophy with the shape of a violin, given to a member of the team, recognizing him/her as the employee of the month for high performance and contribution to the team. The employee of the month keeps the trophy on his/her desk for the month, reminding them of the strength that they bring