Social Sciences
Adel Zahed Babolan; Mehdi Abdolahzadeh; Mohammad Esmaeili
Abstract
purpose: Among the issues that our country's organizations are facing is how to promote socialization. The importance of this issue is so great that today, one of the important factors of progress and development in developed countries is considered to be a trained and motivated workforce, or in a better ...
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purpose: Among the issues that our country's organizations are facing is how to promote socialization. The importance of this issue is so great that today, one of the important factors of progress and development in developed countries is considered to be a trained and motivated workforce, or in a better word, the sociability of specialized employees in different organizations. Accordingly, this study aimed to identify the antecedents and consequences of socialization in Iranian educational organizations using a meta-analysis approach.Methodology: The current research is descriptive in terms of execution method, applied in terms of the type of use, and quantitative in terms of type of data. The statistical population of the research was the articles published in scientific research journals in Iran in the field of organizational socialization, from 2011 to 2023, from which 29 cases were entered through a meta-analysis process with a non-random purposive sampling method. The selected studies were analyzed using CMA2 software. Findings: The findings of the research showed that among the antecedents of organizational socialization, respectively, the variables of electronic literacy (0.849), professional ethics (0.823), empowerment (0.671), organizational culture (0.560), and spirituality in the work environment (0.550) had the largest effect size. Also, among the consequences of organizational socialization, respectively, the variables of social responsibility (0.798), psychological capital (0.680), role outputs (0.669), ethical behavior (0.640), and job enthusiasm (0.620), had the largest effect size. Conclusion: Identifying the antecedents and consequences of socialization in educational organizations that have diverse and yet sensitive goals, missions and tasks helps managers to facilitate the socialization of employees in the organization through focusing and applying the identified factors and variables, and also from the results to Be aware of the use of these factors and variables in the organization and take useful and effective measures to improve the organizational socialization of employees.
