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Want to learn how things really work at your new job? Talk to the people at the bottom

New research shows that people of all ranks look to low-level peers for information about organizational social norms.

What are typical work hours here?

Do teammates do things together outside work?

If I have an idea for changing something, what's the best way to raise it?

Those are questions a new member of any organizational team might have.

How they get those questions answered has been a topic of interest to Dale T. Miller, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) professor of organizational behavior; Jennifer Dannals, who received her PhD from Stanford GSB in 2018 and is now an assistant professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; and Emily Reit, a current Stanford GSB doctoral student.

"A common assumption is that people just copy the behavior of the highest-ranking leaders in a group, rather than paying attention to anyone else," Dannals says. "That's always rubbed me the wrong way, partly because I hadn't done that as a PhD student within the academic hierarchy. I believed lower-ranked people matter more in our perceptions of social norms."

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