parviz farajzadeh

Socialization is a critical organizational process that significantly contributes to effectively adapting personnel into a new organization and playing a suitable role according to the Ottawa Charter, which is one of its important areas for promoting health, developing people's skills, and also reorienting health care services. This study aims to identify the influential factors that contribute to the organizational socialization process among employees inside the health system of Iran.

The current study is an exploratory sequential mixed-method that was conducted in 2022 among managers and personnel of the health system in Tabriz, Iran. The qualitative phase of the study employed a content analysis methodology, wherein a purposive sample technique was utilized to pick 16 managers and staff from the health system. During the quantitative phase, a study was devised and executed utilizing the Delphi technique to thoroughly assess and finalize the components derived from the initial stage. The third part of the study involved a cross-sectional examination employing a descriptive-analytical methodology to assess the indicated parameters. A total of 333 health system employees and administrators were surveyed using a questionnaire.

Organizational socialization of health system employees can be improved through increased awareness of employees, organizational planning, recruitment and retention of talented personnel, performance evaluation of employees, alignment of individual and organizational values, and increased organizational commitment. The results of structural equation modeling showed that organizational planning, employee awareness, individual-organizational values, recruitment and retention of talented staff, and increased organizational commitment had a significant effect on organizational socialization of the healthcare system employees by 9%, 13%, 15%, 11%, and 14%, respectively.

Socialization, as one of the most important organizational processes, can help managers and policymakers to facilitate and plan the process of empowering the employees and reorienting health-oriented processes based on health promotion approaches.

Organizational socialization is a process of teaching employees to successfully integrate into a new organization. Socialization needs to be presented in the form of a coherent pattern.

This study aimed to design a model for the organizational socialization of employees in Iran’s healthcare system using the grounded theory method. Semi-structured interviews were used to extract the main factors influencing the socialization of employees. In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 experts, including specialists, managers, and employees of the healthcare system using the purposeful sampling method. We extracted 49 concepts and 19 categories using the foundation data method in the open coding stage.

The findings showed that developing a model for organizational socialization in Iran's banking system requires the senior managers’ constant support, social responsibility, and socializing organizational culture. The values, norms, and roles expected from the individual should be transmitted clearly.

An organizational socialization model can enhance the socialization of employees in Iran’s healthcare system.

The development of socialized human resources, socialized competitiveness, and socialized basic management requires the Bdesign of socialized human resources processes, an evaluation system, a resource allocation system, socializing succession, and value creation.