The more management relies on formal, collective, sequential, fixed, and serial socialization programs and emphasize divestiture, the more likely newcomers' differences will be stripped away and replaced by standardized predictable behaviors.

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This statement is true as research suggests that formal and standardized socialization programs tend to homogenize newcomers' behaviors and strip away their individual differences. Emphasizing divestiture in these programs implies relinquishing the existing organizational culture and adopting the new one, which further reinforces standardization and predictability.

The More Management Relies on Formal, Collective, Sequential, Fixed, and Serial