Employee Orientation

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The success and effectiveness of any organization depends on its employees performance and their ability to perform their job in the most professional way. To help employees reach their maximum potential, human resources development designs planned activities providing necessary skills required for meeting the organization's objectives. These activities start when the employee joins the organization and it begins with an orientation program. This program is designed to help newcomers overcome the different challenging situations they have to face when they start their new job.

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[...] After four weeks of training, employees are asked to evaluate the orientation program by answering some questions. This lesson plan includes most of the criteria that make orientation training complete, including agency values, workplace safety, and career development. The second training considered in this project is Memorial University of Newfoundland orientation program. The lesson plan includes the purpose of the program, the scope, a general overview, the orientation procedure, the orientation follow-up, and the program review. The objective of the program is to facilitate the transition to Memorial University, to inform employees about their job workplace. [...]

[...] These activities start when the employee joins the organization; it begins with an orientation program. This program is designed to help newcomers overcome the different challenging situations they have to face when they start their new job. It helps them diminish stress, be familiarized with the organization values and culture and understand its expectations, it assists them to attain proficiency and develop positive attitudes. This program also helps reducing start-up costs and turnover. To be effective the content of the training program should meet certain criteria. [...]

[...] This lesson plan is incomplete; it does give details about safety training, policies and procedures, location of facilities or any other organizational information. Indicative bibliography - The art of managing human resources. By Edgar H. Schein, edited by Oxford University Press (New York) - Management of organizational behavior: utilizing human resources. By Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard and Dewey E. Johnson, edited by Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1996. [...]

[...] ARS program objective is to design and sustain effective, diverse and motivated personnel, and maintain the research quality of the agency. The sequencing of activities is clear. During the first day, the different directors, coordinators, and leaders of the agency will welcome employees who will afterward visualize videos on the agency position and on benefits. A meeting with supervisors will be arranged, and then newcomers will start completing processing-in checklists. Specific topics to be covered are listed in and the supervisor has his own checklist to guide him. [...]

[...] There is no media selection, the method of instruction to be used is not specified, and it does not refer to any evaluation item, which makes it incomplete. The last employee orientation program is for a summer educator internship. The objective of this program is to introduce students to complete employee expectations within a business. It consists on three or four forty-five minutes, classroom sessions based on discussions, teamwork, job applications, and badges construction. Students are evaluated using teacher checklists and self-evaluation checklist. [...]