The relationship between organizational socialization and psychological contract: A research on public sector

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between organizational socialization and psychological contract. In this context, the universe of the research is public in Kastamonu province. The personnel working in the institutions are civil oficcer. In the research questionnaire was used to collect data. Data were obtained from 350 people who were easily reached by sampling method. However, 44 questionnaires were not included in the study due to lack of data. Therefore, the sample of the study consists of 306 public employees. The data obtained from the research was analyzed in SPSS 20 statistics program. Correlation analysis was used to analyze the data. According to the results of the analysis a significant relationship is found between organizational socialization and psychological contract. It's found that there is a significant relationship between subdimensions of organizational socialization (training, understanding, coworker support, future prospects) and relational psychological contract. It's also found that there is not a significant relationship between subdimension of organizational socialization and transactional psychological contract.