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Discussion One:   a. New employee onboarding process is essentially the introduction between the new employee and everything that entails of their job. It allows the employee to be trained on the organization’s policies, procedures, and organizational culture. This process is used as a tool for new employees to meet their new coworkers and supervisors; while strengthening the integration process. It is important that organizations choose the best form of onboarding to aid in the process. General onboarding is where employees are introduced to company culture regardless of role, whereas role-specific onboarding is a crafted process that is unique to every position showcasing vital skills and behaviors needed to successfully execute new role ( Effective Onboarding ). A successful new onboarding process addresses four critical ideals for achieving employee retention, garner employee job satisfaction, and maximize performance standards. These ideals are: compliance, clarification, culture, connection ( New Employee Onboarding ). New Hire orientation is the process for the employee to learn the values, mission, vision, policies and procedures. In my opinion, providing the employee handbook is very important. This is an important tool for new employees to see organizational culture, values, and mission. The handbook provides responsibilities, rules, policies, and important benefit information ( New Employee Onboarding ). Human Resources’ role during the onboarding process is overseeing all necessary paperwork from new employees ensuring its completed, discuss and enroll in benefits, review safety and ethics policies, and gives new employees a tour of business. Managers role in the onboarding process is essentially making the new employee feel welcomed, and often work closely with HR to create strategies to assist in the process. Managers help the integration process move quicker by providing mentors, plan trainings in collaboration with HR department, and plan schedule and tasks. b. Onboarding programs benefit both new employees and the organization. For new employees the onboarding process benefit from activities to guide their way into the new role, learn about the organization culture, receive performance expectations, and socialization. Organizations who create onboarding programs are seeing the benefit of an engaged workforce. Onboarding improves retention rates, and employee performance (Lagunas et al., 2014) . References Lagunas, K., By, & Lagunas, K. (2014, November 25). New Hire onboarding as a driver of employee engagement . Training. https://trainingmag.com/new-hire-onboarding-as-a-driver- of-employee-engagement/ Norma Davila, & Wanda Pina-Ramirez. (2018).  Effective Onboarding . Association for Talent Development.
UMGC. (n.d.). New employee onboarding psychological contracts and ethical ... New Employee Onboarding. https://leocontent.umgc.edu/content/dam/course-content/tus/hrmn/hrmn-400/ document/New%20Employee%20Onboarding.pdf Discussion Two:   Application a) When an onboarding program is ineffective that could be consequences for employees and the organization. If an employee feels the onboarding program is inadequate it could create a domino effect of consequences. The new employee may lack the drive to produce, lose engagement in the company, and withdraw from the job. Essentially, this would be bad for the organization because it could have long-term effects in retention rates, and overall productivity (Lagunas et al., 2014) . Without a proper onboarding program organizations are running the risks of setting themselves up for failure, and a workforce of unsatisfied employees. HR can evaluate the success of the onboarding program by looking at key performance indicatiors (KPIs) such as, turnover rates, employee retention and employee performance ( Effective Onboarding ). Turnover rates calculate how many employees left the company over a chosen timeframe. High turnover rates indicate an issue that could be contributed from an ineffective onboarding program. Retention rates calculate how many employees have stayed over a chosen timeframe. Low retention rates would indicate that less employees are being retained or staying with the company. Employee performance paints the picture if onboarding worked, including the training process, and executing important job skills and behaviors. b) When I worked at my previous job the onboarding process was meeting of management, receive employee handbook, learn organization rules and polices and small tour of the building. It wasn’t a very engaging process, extremely role-specific, and the new hire orientation consisting of minimal module training in the first week. I believe that this process could have been a much interesting period for the new employee. References Norma Davila, & Wanda Pina-Ramirez. (2018).  Effective Onboarding . Association for Talent Development. Lagunas, K., By, & Lagunas, K. (2014, November 25). New Hire onboarding as a driver of employee engagement . Training. https://trainingmag.com/new-hire-onboarding-as-a-driver- of-employee-engagement/
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