change found at RMC.To understand the functions of culture within an institution, it is necessary to understand the socialization process. Organizational behavior as a study considers socialization "The process that adopts employees to the organization's culture." (Robbins and Langton, p628) The socialization process takes effect in three stages. All of the three stages can be clearly related to RMC.The prearrival stage is that period of learning before a recruit becomes part of the institution in general. For a recruit this stage commences with recruitment, and endures past BOTC, into recruit term. It is where the recruits learn what the Canadian Forces culture is all about, and during recruit term, what RMC's culture is all about. There is indeed a fair bit of irrelevant or excess material in recruit term that does not per say, well reflect typical RMC life, but it is a useful method of re-socializing recruits to the culture of RMC. It the best chance at making the recruits internalize the values of the college, like Truth, Duty and Valour. The encounter stage in the socialization process is where all employees see the organization for what it is, and may concede the possibility that expectations and reality may deviate. At RMC this begins in third year, as cadets are placed in positions of authority, they get to learn the ins and outs of the system. This is usually when cadets become bitter and skeptical of the system in general. People can become totally disillusioned by reality that they withdraw from the culture and merely wade out the remaining years at the college. In some cases this stage occurs earlier in a cadets career at the college, for instance in first year. If the reality deviates greatly from the prearrival conceptions cadets either quit or endure the remaining time at the college trying to change things, or simply endure them.The metamorphosis stage is that in which the socialization process in which a ne...
