Chapter 8

Inducting and Placing New

Hires

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Formal Orientation Programme

Organisational
Issues
HR
Employee
Representative
Benefits
Introduction

Special Anxiety-
To
Reduction
Placement
Seminars

Specific Job
Supervisor Location and
Duties

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Orientation Programmes

• Strategic choices
– formal or informal
– individual or collective
– serial or disjunctive
– investiture or divestiture

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Problems of Orientation

• Supervisor who is entrusted with the job is not

trained or is too busy.
• Employee is overwhelmed with too much
information in a short time.
• Employee is overloaded with forms to complete.
• Employee is given only menial tasks that
discourage job interest and company loyalty.
• Employee is asked to perform tasks where
there are high chances of failure that could
needlessly discourage the employee.

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Problems of Orientation (contd..)

• Employee is pushed into the job with a sketchy

orientation under the mistaken belief that ‘trial by fire’ is
the best orientation.
• Employee is forced to fill in the gaps between a broad
orientation by the HR department and a narrow
orientation at the departmental level.
• Employee is thrown into action too soon.
• Employee’s mistakes can damage the company.
• Employee may develop wrong perceptions because of
short periods spent on each job.

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