How can Newcomers Enhance Thriving During Organizational Entry: The Critical Role of LMX

We aim to explore how newcomers can proactively improve the quality of their relationships with supervisors during organizational entry. We found that feedback-seeking behavior can effectively enhance the quality of leader-newcomer exchange during the first three months of organizational entry, and the effect of proactive feedback-seeking is especially strong for newcomers with high self-efficacy. Feedback-seeking behavior is also an agentic work behavior that enables newcomers to experience thriving at work. The moderated mediation effect is also significant, signaling that the indirect relationship between feedback-seeking behavior and thriving is stronger when newcomers have high self-efficacy.