Question

The Wolverines are a leading university soccer team. All new recruits to the team must go through certain "rites of passage" which include shaving their heads, swimming in cold water, getting a tattoo of the team's emblem, and other tests of servitude and obedience. This is an example of ________.

Answer 1

Divestiture socialization

Step-by-step explanation:

Divestiture socialization is a process by which a company or an organisation modify the personal characteristics of a new employee to fit into the conditions of the organisation. The organisation tries to strip or remove certain personal characteristics of the new employee in other to get them acquainted with the values of the organisation. Some of these processes could include severance of previous ties of the new hire, this type of onboarding process is mostly used for individuals that are just newly hired into an organisation.

Whereas, investiture socialization allows the new hire make use of their current personal characteristics.