Real-world onboarding experience

 


Onboarding is the entire process around recruitment, hiring, and helping the new employee to reach full productivity as quickly as possible and this process is critical to the success of any organization and Onboarding includes of all actions that will help an employee to know about the community, work place, new job role and expectations of the organization related to the new role which include knowing the company’s business idea, vision, values and practices and other people, such as the new colleagues, customers and other important stakeholders (Deepu.S and Anupriya.C, 2019)

During onboarding, organizations get the first opportunity to integrate and empower organization’s personnel. Onboarding starts much earlier and lasts a lot longer than is typically imagined and when a candidate accepts a job offer, the onboarding process actually begins, and it may take up to a year for a new hire to reach their full potential (Caldwell et al 2018)

Onboarding is like a secret weapon for long-term success. Then, how can the organization ensure that brand-new hires get the best introductions possible? Changing jobs is one of life’s major annoyances. The last thing an organization want to do is leave newly hired employees completely on their own or overwhelm them with administrative duties. Balance is necessary. The building blocks of successful onboarding are often called the Four C’s (Bauer, 2013).

·         Compliance

·         Clarification

·         Culture

·         Connection.

Even though each firm has its procedures, all onboarding programs should follow to the above-mentioned structure. Make sure new hires are familiar with the business, its procedures, and quirks. Is employees job description clear? Spend some time introducing employees to the local culture. Perhaps clubs, groups, or Slack channels in the "watercooler" manner would be of interest and create connections, assist new hires in networking (Ellis et al, 2015).

Never give the responsibility of onboarding to a single person. Onboarding becomes the responsibility of many people to provide the most comprehensive experience. In particular, managers are crucial in assisting and helping new personnel. When employee’s manager played a proactive role, new hires were more likely to strongly concur that they had an amazing onboarding experience. As a result, organization should set aside time for new hires because doing so will increase engagement, productivity, and, most crucially, maintenance (Caldwell et al 2018).

An organizational analysis of the recruitment onboarding procedure at Aster MIMS Hospital, Kannur, Kerala has stated information about the hospital provided by the HR team during onboard program of the hospital suggested as acceptable and appropriate by 70 % of the respondents. Apart from this ,77% of the employees reported that the onboarding program of the hospital made them feel more confident and hence they could do their job well ((Deepu.S and Anupriya.C, 2019)

Confidence developed by the onboarding program in Figure 1.0

Figure 1.0: Confidence developed by the onboarding program


Source: (Deepu.S and Anupriya.C, 2019)

Onboarding is the key to getting new employees quickly and smoothly that are able to force the power of connection during onboarding by specifically identifying answers to the who, what, when, and where for connecting established and new employees benefit in a variety of ways, including enhanced new employee performance, higher job attitudes such as satisfaction and commitment, and decreased turnover (Bauer, 2013).



List of Reference

Bauer.T.N. (2013), Onboarding new employees: Maximizing success, SHRM Foundation’s effective practice guidelines series [online] Available at: Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success (shrm.org) [Accessed on 11 August 2022]

Caldwell.C., and Peters.R., (2018), New employee oboarding-psycological contracts and ethical perspectives, Journal of Management Development, 37910, 27-39

Deepu.S., Anupriya.C., (2019), An organizational analysis of the recruitment onboarding procedure at Aster MIMS Hospital, Kannur, Kerala, International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI) Volume 8 Issue 07 Series. II [online] Available at: A0807020109.pdf (ijbmi.org) [Accessed on 11 August 2022]

Ellis, A. M., Bauer, T. N., Mansfield, L. R., Erdogan, B., Truxillo, D. M., & Simon, L. S. (2015). Navigating uncharted waters: Newcomer socialization through the lens of stress theory, Journal of Management, 41(1), 203–235.

Stein, M., Christiansen, L., York, N., San, C., Lisbon, F., Madrid, L., City, M., New, M., San, D. and Singapore, J. (n.d.). A Strategy to Unlock Hidden Value Within Your Organization. [online] Available at: https://onboardingmargin.com/site/assets/files/1048/introduction.pdf [Accessed on 11 August 2022]

 

 

 


















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