The effect of organizational socialization and knowledge sharing behavior on teamwork

With today's globalizing world, it has become an important goal for organizations to achieve a competitive advantage. In order to achieve this goal, organizations have focused on the individual factor that will enable them to become better than their competitors by creating innovation and development in products and processes. In this context, they take into account the importance of acquiring the individual's knowledge seriously, and by keeping it in the organization and using this new knowledge, they can implement communication- and collaboration-based practices based on that. Undoubtedly, the most basic and frequently used of these practices are organizational socialization and teamwork-based practices. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between the processes of organizational socialization and knowledge-sharing behavior and to evaluate the effect of teamwork on success. For this purpose, organizational socialization, knowledge-sharing behavior, and teamwork have been examined in detail and current examples in practice have been given. At the same time, the effect of tacit knowledge sharing behavior, which can form the basis of new knowledge, on teamwork, was examined. In the last section, the two enterprises have policies and practices for the elements that constitute the focus of the study; such as organizational socialization, knowledge-sharing behavior and the effectiveness of teamwork. 233 white collar employees participated in this study. The data obtained from the research were analyzed using statistical techniques and the results obtained were evaluated. According to the findings of the study, it was concluded that organizational socialization, explicit and tacit knowledge-sharing behavior had an effect on teamwork effectiveness. It was concluded that organizational socialization was highly effective on teamwork than knowledge-sharing behavior. Anahtar Kelimeler: Organizational Socialization, Knowledge Sharing Behavior, Teamwork, Team Activity