Question

The orientation process provides new employees with a sound foundation to becoming tenured employees in the organization. During this process there can be a real connection made between a new employee, current employees, and the organization. Because of these connections orientation is a very important part of the introduction of a new hire. After analyzing the processes used in your organization, do you feel improvements should be made, or do you feel the process is sound and employees have the opportunity to acclimate to the organization and understand their role and the mission of your organization?

Answer 1

Orientation is the process by which an employee or rather a new joiner is introduced with the organization and is provided with knowledge about the organization, the business, technical factors, employees, team members, etc. This is a very formal process and way by which employees are made aware with the organization and the related stakeholders. Most of the multinational companies possess a basic induction and orientation process which helps the new joiner in having a fair knowledge about everything. I think that the process that my employer possess is quite effective for fresher and fresher are generally treated with utmost care and importance where they go through a 2 day induction process when they join for training and 1 day orientation when they join in delivery and fresher generally are benefitted which is visible from their performance and feedback regarding the program.

The lateral employees or the experienced employees who are hired do not have a formal process of induction and it depends on the respective units they are allocated to. I believe that even experienced employees should provided with fair knowledge about the process of the organization before they a re allocated to delivery units this will make them aware of the organization value and culture.