Despite the prevalence of work teams in organizations, how newcomers become integrated into teams remains an understudied area. Drawing on research related to indirect social resources, in this paper we employ a social network perspective to examine how close teammates' friendship centrality can facilitate newcomers' adjustment by fostering the newcomers' own social capital in teams and promoting their subsequent task performance. Furthermore, our model incorporates institutionalized socialization tactics and political skill as two contingencies that can further strengthen the positive effects of indirect social resources on newcomers' adjustment. In a time‐lagged study using multiple sources of data, we found good support for our hypotheses. Specifically, close teammates' friendship centrality was positively related to newcomers' task performance through the mediating effect of newcomers' own friendship centrality in teams. The two moderators further strengthened this indirect effect. Overall, this study highlights the importance of “making the right friends” to facilitate newcomer adjustment into teams.

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结交正确的朋友：团队中新人社交的社交网络视角

尽管组织中​​的工作团队盛行，但新人如何融入团队仍然是一个尚未深入研究的领域。本文基于与间接社会资源有关的研究，我们使用社交网络的观点来考察队友之间的友谊中心性如何通过在团队中培养新人自身的社会资本并提升其随后的任务绩效来促进新人的适应。此外，我们的模型将制度化的社会化策略和政治技巧结合为两个意外事件，可以进一步加强间接社会资源对新移民适应的积极影响。在一项使用多个数据源的时滞研究中，我们发现了对我们假设的良好支持。具体来说，亲密队友 通过团队中新人自己的友谊中心性的中介作用，友谊中心性与新人的任务表现成正相关。两位主持人进一步加强了这种间接影响。总的来说，这项研究强调了“结交正确的朋友”以促进新移民适应团队的重要性。