Onboarding : Getting New Hires off to a Flying Start.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harpelund, Christian
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: HĂžjberg, Morten T., Nielsen, Kasper U.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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