Track: Business Management

Abstract

This study was conducted in wholesaler that was located in Jakarta and the purpose of this study was to find out the impact of organizational socialization toward organizational commitment with psychological empowerment as mediating variable. The data was collected by doing interview and also distributing questionnaire to 100 wholesaler employees as respondents with simple random technique as a sampling technique. Further, the data collected was analyzed by using structural equation model (SEM) with the basis of theory and concept, from the package of Partial Least Square (PLS) program as data analysis technique. In this study, exogenous variable is organizational socialization, endogen variable is organizational commitment and psychological empowerment as intervening variable. This study found that organizational socialization has significant impact on organizational commitment and psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment also has significant impact on organizational commitment. This study results stated that psychological empowerment proven to mediate organizational socialization toward organizational commitment.