Organizational Socialization System Designing: Case Study of Fars Regional Power Company
Subject Areas :alireza khoshbin 1 , habibalallah ranaei 2 , abbas abbasi 3
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2 - iran,shiraz,shirazi university, management
3 - iran,shiraz,shirazi university, management
Keywords: Organizational Socialization, Newcomer Socialization, Organizational Socialization Process, Organizational Socialization Tactics,
Abstract :
The purpose of this study was to design a desirable system of organizational socialization with a systematic approach and assessment the Fars Regional Electricity Company based on it and provide applied recommendations. This research’s purpose is applied and its research method is case study. The statistical population of this study includes 77 newcomers who were hired 2013 until 2019. Data was collected by using standard questionnaires, interviews and documentary reviews. Data analysis was performed by using contextual content analysis, descriptive statistics techniques (mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis) and inferential statistics (single sample t-test). The results of the design of the research model indicated that the desirable system of organizational socialization includes six dimensions of contextual factors, process, content, tactics, agents and consequences of organizational socialization. In addition, the assessment’s results of this system in Fars Regional Electricity Company indicated undesirable status of job characteristics and the organizational structure of the organization, the undesirable status in the pre-entry phase of the organizational socialization process, the desirable status of the organizational socialization content (excluding the future job prospects), the combination of organizational tactics, lack of retirees in the process of organizational socialization and the desirable status of the consequences of organizational socialization. Finally, the applied and research recommendations were provided.
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