Creating Inclusive Organizational Socialization: Voices From New Employees With Autism and Their Neurotypical Colleagues in Bangkok, Thailand

ABSTRACT This study examines how recent employees with autism adapt to their new jobs through organizational socialization. A qualitative and phenomenological methodology and in‐depth interviews with employers, supervisors, coworkers, and new hires with autism revealed that (i) colleagues' prior knowledge and experience of neurodiversity, (ii) leadership approaches, and (iii) provision of the hybrid model of individualized socialization and accommodations. The findings underscore the necessity of inclusive organizational strategies to foster workplace neurodiversity and the disparities between public and private sector workplaces in inclusive organizational socialization practices. Furthermore, this study contributes to Organizational Theory and HRM and offers key recommendations for fostering neurodiversity and workplace inclusion through the organizational socialization process from organization leaders, policy shapers and practitioners.