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A quantitative cross-sectional design was adopted, and questionnaire data were collected from 419 new employees in Chinese high-tech enterprises. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and AMOS 26.0, including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping to examine the mediating role of employee proactiveness. The results showed that scenario, content, and social strategies were positively associated with employee proactiveness. Employee proactiveness was positively associated with performance proficiency, role clarity, and cultural adaptation, but not with interpersonal relationship adaptation. Scenario strategy was positively associated with all four dimensions of work adaptability, whereas content strategy was positively associated with performance proficiency, role clarity, and interpersonal relationship adaptation, but not with cultural adaptation. Social strategy was positively associated only with performance proficiency. Employee proactiveness significantly mediated the associations between organizational socialization strategies and performance proficiency, role clarity, and cultural adaptation, but not interpersonal relationship adaptation. These findings highlight the differential associations between organizational socialization strategies and dimensions of newcomer work adaptability, while underscoring the mediating role of employee proactiveness in several of these associations. 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