Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e

Orienting/Onboarding New Employees

Learning Objective 1

1. Summarize the purpose and process of employee orientation.

Carefully selecting employees doesn’t guarantee they’ll perform effectively. Even high-potential employees can’t do their jobs if they don’t know what to do or how to do it. Making sure your employees do know what to do and how to do it is the purpose of orientation and training. The human resources department usually designs the orientation and training programs, but the supervisor does most of the day-to-day orienting and training. Every manager therefore should know how to orient and train employees. We will start with orientation.

The Purposes of Employee Orientation/Onboarding

Employee orientation (often now called onboarding ...