TY - JFULL AU - Pornprom Chomngam PY - 2012/12/ TI - Information Seeking through Assimilation Process in Thai Organization T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 3062 EP - 3068 VL - 6 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5995 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 71, 2012 N2 - The purpose of this study is to examine employee assessments of the usefulness/value of different types of information available to those employees during the process of organizational assimilation. Participants in the study were 247 “new" employees at Bangkok Bank. Bangkok Bank considers employees whose length of stay with the bank has been less than 18 months as new employees. Questionnaires were administered to all of the Bank-s new employees to obtain the data for this study. Repeated measures analysis was used to analyze the data. The data were summed and coded by using Statistical Package for Social Science. Newcomers indicate that social information is the most useful information, followed by job (technical, referent, and appraisal information), political, normative, and organizational information. Essentially, social, job, and political information are evaluated by newcomers as highly useful, while normative and organizational information are rated as moderately useful. ER -