The Relationships between Organizational Socialization and Argumentation

Socialization could use for prediction or explanation of people behaviors. Some researches indicated that more organizational socialization leads to less argumentation. On the contrary, there are also other researches showed that employees in an organization might use argumentation as a mean for specific goal or purpose, those phenomena showed that more organizational socialization leads to more argumentation. We wonder which one is in reality? It became the research problem of this study. This study hypothesis is that more organizational socialization leads to more argumentation. Authors implemented survey to be examined. Study results indicated that higher organizational socialization and middle organizational socialization those two groups compare with lower organizational socialization will lead to more argumentation when conflict happened between employees. These results do not consist with previous study findings.