The effect of organizational socialization tactics on employees? career planning: A study in five-star hotels

Organizational socialization that has important effect on process of heading both newcomers and also all employees for aims, rules of organization and attitudes of employees, involves results that can cover effects on employees? career planning in hotel establishments as in other establishment types. On the other hand, no study can be found on hotel establishments in our country during the search for literature of the subject. In this regard this study has been done for setting the effect of organizational socialization tactics on employees? career planning.In this study questionnaire was applied to 408 employees who were working in five stars hotel establishments in Istanbul to set effects of organizational socialization tactics on employees? career planning. This questionnaire consists of three parts. In the first part there are demographic questions to define features of employees and establishments. In the second part there are questions to define organizational socialization tactics, in the third part there are questions for career planning. The opinions of the participants about the organizational socialization tactics and career planning were tested with t-test and variance analysis, to understand whether they show a statistically significant relation. And also the relation between the opinions of participants about organizational socialization tactics was also tested to find a correlation with career planning, using correlation and regression analysis.A significant difference was defined among the features of participants (ages, departments) and organizational socialization tactics and career planning. No significant difference was defined among the features of participants (gender, marital status, child ownership, years of employment in the sector and ownership type of establishment) and organizational socialization tactics and career planning. And also according to results of correlation analysis to define correlation between organizational socialization tactics and career planning, a positive and strong correlation was found at the level of ?r=0,759?. According to Regression Analysis results, the most important dimensions of the organizational socialization tactics which affected general career planning most were ?collective versus individual?, ?investiture versus divestiture? and ?fixed versus variable?