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AI-Mediated Leadership and New Employee Onboarding: Applying Expectation Violation Theory to Understand Acceptance of AI Avatars
- 1 School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China
- 2 Soochow University
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Abstract
This paper explores the role of AI avatars as an emerging form of interaction in organizational management, especially the research gap in the acceptance and interaction patterns of AI avatars in the context of new employee organization socialization. Through a structured questionnaire and quantitative analysis with a Likert scale, we discuss the impact of the Expectation Violation Theory (EVT) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) on the socialization of new employees.
Keywords
AI avatars, socialization, Expectation Violation Theory (EVT), Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)
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Liu,Y.;Zhang,Y. (2024). AI-Mediated Leadership and New Employee Onboarding: Applying Expectation Violation Theory to Understand Acceptance of AI Avatars. Journal of Applied Economics and Policy Studies,15,1-5.
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