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1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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Intro; Contents; Introduction; Part One: Take off; 1: Why Invest in Onboarding?; An Imbalance in the New Hire Eco-System is Costly; Onboarding will Become as Important as Recruitment; Far too many Resign Prematurely; Twenty-Five Percent of New Hires Leave Their New Job within a Year; More Than Half of Newly Employed New Hires Regret Their Decision; Twenty Percent of New Hires Who Leave, Do So within the First 45 Days; Four Percent of New Hires Never Return after Their First Day on the Job; There is a Lot to be Learned -- and Earned; A Smart Onboarding Design Saves Time |
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Reduced Meeting TimesTraining before the First Working Day -- Pre-boarding; Time-to-Performance; The Honeymoon Effect; Across-company Differences; Better Retention of New Hires; Contented New Hires are Good Business; 2: An Onboarding Mindset; Principle 1. They are Already Motivated!; Motivation is Accompanied by Other Feelings; Motivation and Tension; Motivation and Nervousness; Motivation and Doubt; The Organisation's Readiness Affects Motivation; Motivation is also Affected by What We Do Not Do; Motivations Span from 'Bag-Boys' to Engineers |
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Principle 2. It's All about the New Hire -- not the OrganisationThe Organisation Must Not Steal the Limelight; Onboarding Should Not Just be a Checklist; Let Them Demonstrate their Capabilities; Principle 3. Onboarding is a Transition; A Transition Can Easily Go Wrong; Make Onboarding Clear; Onboarding -- That's What We Do; Part Two: In the Air; 3: How Do I Create 'Good' Onboarding?; The Psychology of Onboarding; Three Tracks -- Three Coordinates; Meaning; Autonomy; Mastery; Necessary Contradictions in the Onboarding; Avoid Problematising; 4: The Forming Track |
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The Company Culture Forms the EmployeesCulture and Rules; Culture; Start with Why We are Here; Without Meaning, it Becomes Meaningless; The Past Makes Sense; The Future Makes Sense; The Present Makes Sense; Give the New Hire a Wow! Experience; They Must Feel Welcome; Meeting the Director Matters; When Wow! turns to Bummer!; Give the New Hire the Feeling of Fit; The Leader Must Know the Culture; Several Ways to Fit in; Playing with Culture; Rules; It Can Demotivate to Start with the Rules; Be Aware That Rules Exercise Power; It is Motivating to Not Make Mistakes |
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Explain Why the Rules are ThereBeware of the 'Cover My Back' Rule; Rules Can Provide Pride and Value; Make it Easy to Comply; When the Rules and Culture Contradict One Another; Forming Ambitions; 5: The Connection Track; There was Complete Silence; Resources for Connection; Networks and Collaboration; The Network; Level 1: The Organisational Network; Level 2: The Work Network; Level 3: The Knowledge-based Network; Level 4: The Social Network; The First Dimension: Inclusion; The Second Dimension: Influence; The Third Dimension: Affection; Collaboration; 6: The Unfolding Track |
| Summary |
The book provides a clear framework for managers to improve the onboarding process. The authors have developed an easy to use model and process for onboarding which maps out 6 dimensions which can be used to design and implement a systematic organizational process |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Development is about Mastery |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Employee orientation.
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Employees -- Recruiting.
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Employee motivation.
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Economics, finance, business & management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Employee motivation
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Employee orientation
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Employees -- Recruiting
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Højberg, Morten, author
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Nielsen, Kasper Ulf, author
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| ISBN |
9781787695818 |
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1787695816 |
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9781787695832 |
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1787695832 |
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