Browsing by Author "Sozen, H. Cenk"

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Bibliometric Profiles of Studies on Organization Theory in Turkey: Periodic Comparison of Cite Networks
(2015) Kirkbesoglu, Erdem; Sozen, H. Cenk; Kurt, Esra; 0000-0002-6781-9753; ABI-3973-2020
The purpose of this study is to determine relational links via documents and to have an impression about the development of organization theory in Turkey by using bibliometric methods. Studies of various researchers have been considered with a longditutional approach.The papers which had been presented in National Management and Organization Congress within 10 years were examined in terms of most cited theories, authors, research topics and academic journals. The data were also used for social network analyses to examine interactions between universities, research topics and authors.The data were examined under two periods consist of five years. Findings show that there is a variation between two periods and work style have been transferred to newly founded universities or PhD programs in these universities.
Human or Social Resources Management: Which Conditions Force HR Departments to Select the Right Employees for Organizational Social Capital?
(2016) Sozen, H. Cenk; Varoglu, Demet; Yeloglu, H. Okan; Basim, H. Nejat; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9423-9503; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2605-9962; AFW-3265-2022; L-1624-2017
This study examines in which cases organizations tend to form social capital, and explores how such attitude affects their recruitment strategies. This countrywide research project covering 158 firms located in 18 different cities was conducted to understand and to identify the variables which increase organizations' tendency to form social capital. A mixed methodological approach was adopted to reveal relationships between variables. The results show that dependency to state and suppliers, environmental uncertainty, rate of tenured staff in organizations, ownership status, conduct of HR activities by other departments or units and educational level of HR staff increase organizations' tendency to form social capital. Besides, it was found that organizational age, outsourcing of HR activities and centralized HR departments are negatively associated with social capital.
The Pattern of Stable Personality in Predicting the Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Capital
(2015) Cetin, Fatih; Turgut, Hakan; Sozen, H. Cenk; 0000-0002-2487-9553; J-8116-2015
The concept of subjective well-being that is considered to be counterpart of the "happiness" in the psychological science is one of the indicators of how individuals think and sense their lifetime. The main purpose of this study is to explore the effects of the big five personality in the light of the genetic or personality theories and psychological capital with regards to the process or activity theories on the subjective well-being, and to seek for the mediating role of the psychological capital in this process. The data were collected at twelve-day intervals from 361 employees working in various positions in a courier company with using survey method. The survey battery comprised of Well-being Scale, Big Five Personality Scale and Psychological Capital Scale. The data were analyzed with using Amos v20.0 and SPSS v20.0 programs. The findings showed a significant positive relationship between extraversion, agreeableness, psychological capital and subjective well being, and a significant negative relationship between neuroticism and subjective well being. In addition to that psychological capital mediated the relationship between the extroversion and subjective well being. The results allowed researchers to make casual inferences about the relationship between stable personality characteristics and psychological attributes indicated as intraindividual distal and proximal context in the well being literature.