AI-Mediated Leadership and New Employee Onboarding: Applying Expectation Violation Theory to Understand Acceptance of AI Avatars

This paper explores the role of AI avatars as an emerging form of interaction in organizational management, especially the research gap in the acceptance and interaction patterns of AI avatars in the context of new employee organization socialization. Through a structured questionnaire and quantitative analysis with a Likert scale, we discuss the impact of the Expectation Violation Theory (EVT) and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) on the socialization of new employees.