Abstract:

There is increasing interest in how to enhance the level of organizational identification as an attitude that organizations desire for their employees to develop in today's new generation enterprises. The search for new antecedents to increase the level of identification has proceeded for a long time in several organizational settings. An antecedent of the identification can be the organizational socialization process that employees experience through the organization’s direction. The validity of the theory for hypothesized relations gains importance as the conditions change in this context. It is expected that the socialization level of the employees increases the level of organizational identification in the institutions in the light of social identity theory. The main research question is to test the validity of social identity theory on the relationship. According to the findings of the quantitative-research with 448 participants, high level of explanatory effect of organizational socialization process on organizational identification was not found in accordance with the proposals of social identity theory. The findings of the study reveal the necessity of exploring new antecedent factors for organizational identification.

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