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I think I'm going to do my article on organizational osmosis, an organizational communication variable. Organizational osmosis is a concept within anticipatory socialization, an idea that we begin to be socialized by our parents' influence (among other influences) from a very early age that aids in assimilation into a new organization due to what we already know because we were so exposed to it already. This concept was created by Melissa Gibson and Michael Papa when they interviewed lots of blue-collar factory workers. They found that most of them had fathers that had also worked in a factory, and even grandfathers, uncles, cousins, and brothers. Because they knew exactly what to expect, their socialization into the organization was almost seamless.