Abstract:

Under the current business conditions, which are based on increased competition based on globalization and unpredictable change in technology, need to efficiently and efficiently use the existing human resources, which is a strategic resource to maintain their efficiency, and ensure that employees remain in the organization. For this purpose, the enterprises must have a structure that takes decisions in accordance with their interests to keep their existing qualified employees in their hands, monitoring and protecting their rights. It is also important for employees to raise their employment advocacy and the perception of organizational support to show that companies value their employees to influence the levels of employment burial that they employ, prevent and link to their organization, and that they make decisions appropriate to their interests.  At this point, the feeling of the existence of a management structure in which employees know their rights will be protected will affect the employment of employees and will provide a return to the business as a efficiency. When the relevant field is studied in the summer, it is usually seen that the relationship with the followers of employedness (working participation, continuation, performance) is studied, but that the relationship with the predecessors of the concept is not much discussed. Employee advocacy perception and organizational support perception are considered to be meaningful in terms of removing the deficiencies in the relevant field text, in this study the aim is to identify the mediation role of the employer advocacy in the impact of organizational support on employer’s enterprise. The research is a visual research and the general scan model has been used in the research. The sample of the research is made by employees of companies operating in the logistics sector in Kayseri province. The study found that the support and employment advocacy that the Kayseri logistics sector business employees perceive have a positive impact on the employment of employees and that the employment advocacy has a partial role of mediation in the influence of the employment of employees on the organizational support perception.

Abstract:

In today’s business conditions, which is based on the increase of competition due to globalization and the irrepressible change in technology, businesses’ should use the existing human resource, which is a strategic source for sustaining their productivity effectively, efficiently and support the employees to stay in the organization. In this study, it was aimed to determine the mediating role of employee advocacy on the relation between organizational support and job embeddedness. While the population of the study includes employees of businesses that are active in logistics sector in Kayseri, the sample consists of a total of 421 employees that are chosen random (impartial) sampling method and permitted by the managers of these businesses. Data about the employees were collected with “Perceived Organizational Support Scale", “Job Embeddedness Scale”, and Employee Advocacy Perception Scale”. In order to collect data about the personal variables, “Personal Information Form” which was prepared by the researchers was used. In the analysis of the obtained data that was acquired by data collection tools, computer package program was used. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics was conducted as well as correlation and hierarchical regression analyses. As a result of the analyses, it was determined that the perceived support by the employees in logistics sector business of Kayseri and employee advocacy has a positive effect on the job embeddedness of employees and occupational lawyers have a partial mediation role on the job embeddedness of the perceived organizational support of employees.

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