Inclusive human resource management practices influence young new employees’ proactive organizational socialization

All new employees experience organizational socialization when they enter a company. Effective organizational socialization is crucial in shaping an enterprise’s competitiveness and helping new employees to achieve better performance. This study explored the effect of inclusive human resource management practices (HRMP) on proactive organizational socialization among younger employees. We adopted a sample of 440 respondents and used multilevel analyses to test the data. The results showed that inclusive HRMP had a positive influence on younger employees’ sense of psychological safety, perception of an inclusive climate, and proactive organizational socialization. In addition, inclusive HRMP influenced proactive organizational socialization via both perception of an inclusive climate and sense of psychological safety. Further, protean career orientation had a moderating effect on these two mediating processes. Implications of the findings are discussed.