Recruiting, hiring, and retaining talented employees are imperative to an organizations success. Organizations want to be able to train their employees on not only their job specific task, but also the goals and culture of the organization they are joining, this process is called onboarding. This term is defined in an online article titled, “Starting Them Off On the Right Foot: Why Onboarding is Important” as, “A more comprehensive process by why new employees are socialized into a company’s culture, in addition to being oriented to their specific job tasks and associated work expectations.” (Krauss, 2010). Personally, I have not had the opportunity of experiencing onboarding, so I took this opportunity to research different pieces of literature that offered some valuable insight on this topic.
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Newly hired employees want to have an informative and effective onboarding process, yet complete it with enough time to focus on their individual roles and success within the organization. It is stated in an online article titled, “How Technology Can Improve Employee Onboarding” that, “A successful onboarding process can result in increased productivity, shortened ramp-p time, greater employee engagement, and less turnover, to make this happen, its important to invest in technology that will set your employees up for success, and make those crucial first weeks (or months) enjoyable and productive.”(Klemp, 2015). My suggestion for this would be to incorporate videos into the onboarding process; instead of running down a list of names of important individuals in the organization, allow the employee to put a face to the name; having all important personnel creating a video welcoming the new employee can have a positive effect on the employees onboarding
In today’s world, technology is an enormous part of our everyday lives and just about everything we do, right …show more content…
Newly hired employees want to have an informative and effective onboarding process, yet complete it with enough time to focus on their individual roles and success within the organization. It is stated in an online article titled, “How Technology Can Improve Employee Onboarding” that, “A successful onboarding process can result in increased productivity, shortened ramp-p time, greater employee engagement, and less turnover, to make this happen, its important to invest in technology that will set your employees up for success, and make those crucial first weeks (or months) enjoyable and productive.”(Klemp, 2015). My suggestion for this would be to incorporate videos into the onboarding process; instead of running down a list of names of important individuals in the organization, allow the employee to put a face to the name; having all important personnel creating a video welcoming the new employee can have a positive effect on the employees onboarding