TABLE OF CONTENTS What's in This Chapter?
Purpose and goals of a new employee orientation programme
Elements of an effective programme that addresses cognitive, affective and behavioural learning domains
Supervisor's preparation for the new employee's arrival
What to cover on an employee's first day
How to orientate the new employee to the overall organization
Before you begin to design your new employee orientation programme, you need to spend time upfront getting support, buy-in and participation from others in the organization. You cannot design this programme in a vacuum you need to be clear about what the organization's top management wants to accomplish in a new employee orientation programme. Of course, you can give them some guidance and direction by sharing what you already know about the needs of new employees and the goals of successful programmes as identified in current research.
The purposes and goals of a new employee orientation programme are
to provide employees with information that helps them integrate smoothly and quickly into the organization
to introduce employees to the organization as a whole its structure, philosophy, purpose, values and so forth
to help new employees identify the importance of their roles within the organization and how what they do affects others
to introduce employees to their department's goals and their roles in helping meet those goals
to promote communication between the employee and management
to communicate expectations regarding policies, procedures and performance
to make new employees feel welcome and to assure them that they made...
