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Few things have a greater impact on new employees than the way they
are introduced to their new job, their workplace and their co-workers.
If new employees are treated with indifference, left to wait
interminably “until I can get around to you,” given handbooks and
policy manuals with no explanation, asked to sign form after
incomprehensible form and left with their questions unanswered and
their curiosity unappeased, they are much less likely to become good
employees. The first days on a job are some of the most
important ones in a person’s career. How new employees view
your company and their jobs is often the result of the way that they
are treated on the first day at work.
The early period in a person’s employment is the time when
attitudes are formed, habits are established and the groundwork for
future personal effectiveness is laid. It is therefore critical
to make a new employee’s introduction as pleasant and informative as
possible. Introduction and orientation is a process that begins
with, if not before, the hiring of an employee or the transfer of an
employee from another business unit. This process should
continue until the employee becomes a regular, fully functioning
member of the new organizational unit.
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