Benefits or Importance of Socialization | Human Resource Management

Benefits or Importance of Socialization!

Socialization is an important human resource process with a view to familiarizing new employees with norms, values, cultures and rules in the organization. Proper socialization becomes an important factor in influencing both employees actual job performance and how other people perceive it. The benefits of socialization can be explained as follows:

 1. Develop mutual relationship

Socialization process can easily helps to develop mutual relationships between new employees and old employees. It helps in understanding each other by sharing ideas and views. Effective socialization program introduces new and old employees and co-workers. The new employees feel confident and dedication towards work.

 2. Good impression towards firm

Effective socialization activities provides favourable impression about the job and the organization. The newcomers always expect opportunities for advancement and creative work environment. They become the real resources of the organization and they start contributing higher to the organization. It helps to reduce employee turnover and gives favourable impression.

 3. Easy adaption with organizational environment

Socialization helps new employees to understand and accept organizations culture. Socialization process is the best practice to adapt with the organization environment. This will increase confidence to employees. Socialization helps employees to understand right way to do a job.

 4. Increase in productivity

Since socialization process increase confidence of employees it helps to boost the work performance as well. Socialization helps new employees to understand and accept organizations culture. The acceptance of socialization activities by the new employees can result in job satisfaction, which leads to better performance and finally increase in productivity. Socialization helps employees to understand best way to do a job which is important to increase productivity.

 5. Minimizes wastage and accidents

Socialization process helps understand the right way to do a job. Employees will learn the organizations culture, work process, values, norms, etc which is also important for organization to eliminate wastage and reduce the chances of accidents. Every employee knows about acceptable and unacceptable behavior in their respective department. They learn many things during socialization process which helps them to be proactive in their work.