Orientation
and Placement
Ø Orientation is a systematic and planned introduction of employees
to their jobs, their coworkers and the organization.
Ø It is also called as induction.
Ø Orientation conveys three
types of information:
o General information about the daily work routine.
o A review of the organization’s history, founding fathers,
objectives, operations or services, as well as how the employees contributes to
the organization.
o A detailed presentation, perhaps in a brochure, of the
organization, work rules, and employees’ benefits.
Purpose of Orientation:
Ø Make the new employees feel “At home” in the new environment
Ø Employees feel anxious on entering an organization.
Ø Providing information on the job environment and supervisors, by
introducing them to coworkers.
Ø Expectation from new personnel.
Four types of orientation
program:
1. Formal – Informal
2. Individual – collective
3. Serial –disjunctive
4. Investiture – divestiture
1. Formal-Informal:
Ø Informal
orientation: new hire are directly put on
the job an they are expected to accept / adopt themselves with the work and
organization.
Ø Formal
Orientation: the management has a structured
program which is executed when new hire/ employee join the organization.
2. Individual –Collective:
Ø Individual: new hire should be inducted individually.
o Orienting each person separately is an expensive and time
consuming process.
o No opportunity to share anxiety with fellow appointees.
Ø Collective: Large organization use collective approach.
o Small firms: Individual approach.
3. Serial- disjunctive:
Ø Serial: When an experienced employee inducts a new hire. The experienced
employee acts as a tutor and model for the new hire.
Ø Disjunctive: when new hire do not have predecessors (former office holder) to
guide them or to model their behavior upon.
o More creative , no burden of tradition
4. Investiture – divestiture:
Ø Investiture: Investiture orientation seeks to ratify (accept, confirm) the
usefulness of the characteristics that the person brings to new job.
o Most high-level appointments follow this approach.
Ø Divestiture Orientation: Seeks to make minor modification in the
characteristics of the new hire, though, he or she was selected based on his or
her potential for performance.
o Dismantle old mind set of new member.
Placement:
Ø Refers to the allocation of people to Job.
Ø It includes initial assignment to new employees and promotion,
transfer or demotion.
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