MHR 523 Lecture 6: MHR523 - Class 6 Notes

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 523
• Professor: Tingting Zhang

Document Summary

Become a learning organization: learning organization. An organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and at modifying its behaviour to reflect new knowledge and insights: orientation. Employee and employer expectations or obligations are considered: training. Help the recipient gain the required skills or knowledge to perform the job at adequate levels. Onboarding and orientation of new employees: employee onboarding (orientation) Helps reduce first day jitters and reality shock. Improved retention levels and reduced recruitment costs: socialization. Ongoing process of instilling in all employees the prevailing attitudes, standards, values, and patterns of behaviour that are expected by the organization: orientation. Helps to (cid:272)larif(cid:455) the orga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s of a(cid:374) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ee regardi(cid:374)g his or her jo(cid:271), thus helpi(cid:374)g to redu(cid:272)e the (cid:374)e(cid:449) e(cid:373)plo(cid:455)ee"s first-day jitters and reality shock (also referred to as cognitive dissonance) The discrepancy between what the new employee expected from his or her new. Content of orientation programs job and its realities.