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Authors
1 Assistant professor, Isfahan University
2 M.A of Isfahan University
Abstract
Organizational socialization plays a crucial role in the early stages of employment for newcomer. It has been found that socialization reduces the negative effects of unmet expectations on overall organizational effectiveness, including employee commitment – an issue that has become a new challenge for many companies. The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between the organizational socialization and the organizational commitment at Kurdistan province Gas Company. A sample of 190 was randomly selected from employees of the gas company. Two sets of questionnaires based on Jones organizational socialization and Allen & Meyer organization commitment models were used for the purpose of data collection. The questionnaires’ validity was determined based on the viewpoints of organizational behavior and human resource management experts, and the reliability of both questionnaires was estimated through Cronbach’s alpha coefficient that accounted for /85 and. /82 respectively. The results showed that organizational socialization was significantly and directly related to organizational commitment. The Regression analysis also indicates that fixed and investiture tactics appear to be appropriate predictors for organizational commitment
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