The Effects of Institutional Socilization Applications on Person to Organization Fit

Researches on person to organization fit suggest that employee fitting their organizations have higher job satisfaction and organizational commitment while the organizations have lower rate of absenteeism, turnover, role conflict and role ambiguity as well. Person to organization fit is realized with organizational socialization programs facilitating various socialization tactics. This dissertation titled as ?The Effects of Institutional Application on Person to Organization Fit? aims to research outcomes of applications of institutional socialization tactics applied by military training center, located in zmir/Turkey. Majority of the second grade cadets are sampled and empirical data collected via likert-type questionnaire is analyzed by various statistical methods and evaluated respectively. This dissertation refers to three dimensions, namely professional, so assumed cultural and personality in the scope of person-organization fit, and examines the effects of institutional tactics during the fitting process in the mentioned dimensions. Moreover, relationships among the fitting dimensions, and variances among demographical groups in view of dimensional perspectives are studied herewith. The outcomes of the research indicate the following relationships among selected variables: (1) Variances among age groups from professional dimension perspective, and demographical variables referring educational status from job satisfaction perspective, (2) Relationship between one socialization tactics, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, (3) Relationships between some personality factors out of 16 factors and socialization tactics, (4) No relationships between socialization tactics and professional dimension. Key Words :1) Organizational Socialization, 2) Socialization Tactics, 3) Job Satisfaction, 4) Organizational Commitment, 5) Personality Factors.