The effect of the organizational socialization on organizational commitment and turnover intention with regard to moderate effect of career aspirations intention

• Main Authors: Hossein Vazifehdust, Shirin Khosrozadeh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Growing Science 2014-02-01
• Series: Management Science Letters
• Subjects: Organizational socialization; Organizational commitment; Career aspirations intention; Turnover intention
• Online Access: http://www.growingscience.com/msl/Vol4/msl_2013_401.pdf
• ISSN: 1923-2934; 1923-9343

This paper discusses the influence of the Organizational socialization, on Organizational commitment and turnover intention with regard to moderate effect of career aspirations intention. Data were collected via a questionnaire from employees of east branches of social security organization of Tehran. Path analysis of data from 155 respondents was used to test 5 hypotheses. The results show organizational socialization has positive effect on organizational commitment, but negative effect on turnover intention moreover organizational commitment and career aspiration intention have positive effect on turnover intention. Further research should examine the different dimensions of macro-environmental condition on turnover intention.