This document discusses socialization, orientation, training, and development of employees. It defines socialization as the process of adapting to a new work role. New employee orientation covers things like company objectives, history, procedures, and culture. Training is designed to improve job performance and may be on-the-job or off-the-job. Employee development focuses on personal growth through methods like job rotation and committees. Organization development facilitates long-term organizational changes through techniques like surveys and team building.
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1. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 9e, DeCenzo and Robbins
Chapter 8
Socializing, Orienting, and Developing Employees
Fundamentals of Human
Resource Management
Ninth Edition
DeCenzo and Robbins
2. Fundamentals of Human Resource Management 9e, DeCenzo and Robbins
Introduction
Socialization, training and development are
all used to help new employees adapt to
their new organizations and become fully
productive.
Ideally, employees will understand and
accept the behaviors desired by the
organization, and will be able to attain their
own goals by exhibiting these behaviors.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
Socialization
A process of adaptation to a new work
role.
Adjustments must be made whenever
individuals change jobs
The most profound adjustment occurs
when an individual first enters an
organization.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
The assumptions of employee socialization:
Socialization strongly influences employee
performance and organizational stability
Provides information on how to do the job and
ensuring organizational fit.
New members suffer from anxiety, which
motivates them to learn the values and norms of
the organization.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
The assumptions of employee
socialization:
Socialization is influenced by subtle and
less subtle statements and behaviors
exhibited by colleagues, management,
employees, clients and others.
Individuals adjust to new situations in
remarkably similar ways.
All new employees go through a settling-in
period.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
The Socialization Process
Prearrival stage: Individuals
arrive with a set of values,
attitudes and expectations which
they have developed from
previous experience and the
selection process.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
The Socialization Process
Encounter stage: Individuals discover
how well their expectations match realities
within the organization.
Where differences exist, socialization
occurs to imbue the employee with the
organization’s standards.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
The Socialization Process
Metamorphosis stage: Individuals have adapted
to the organization, feel accepted and know what
is expected of them.
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The Insider-Outsider Passage
A Socialization Process
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The Purpose of New-Employee
Orientation
Orientation may be done by the supervisor, the
HRM staff or some combination.
Formal or informal, depending on the size of the
organization.
Covers such things as:
The organization’s objectives
History
Philosophy
Procedures
Rules
HRM policies and benefits
Fellow employees
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The Purpose of New-Employee
Orientation
Learning the Organization’s Culture
Culture includes long-standing, often unwritten
rules about what is appropriate behavior.
Socialized employees know how things are done,
what matters, and which behaviors and
perspectives are acceptable.
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The Purpose of New-Employee
Orientation
The CEO’s Role in Orientation
Senior management are often visible during
the new employee orientation process.
CEOs can:
Welcome employees.
Provide a vision for the company.
Introduce company culture -- what matters.
Convey that the company cares about employees.
Allay some new employee anxieties and help them
to feel good about their job choice.
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The Purpose of New-Employee
Orientation
HRM’s Role in Orientation
Coordinating Role: HRM instructs new
employees when and where to report;
provides information about benefits
choices.
Participant Role: HRM offers its assistance
for future employee needs (career
guidance, training, etc.).
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Employee Training
Definitions
Employee training
a learning experience designed to achieve a
relatively permanent change in an individual that
will improve the ability to perform on the job.
Employee development
future-oriented training, focusing on the personal
growth of the employee.
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Employee Training
Determining training needs
Specific training goals should be based on:
organization’s needs
type of work to be done
skills necessary to complete the work
Indicators of need for more training:
drops in productivity
increased rejects
inadequate job performance
rise in the number of accidents
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Employee Training
Determining training needs
The value added by training must
be considered versus the cost.
Training goals should be
established that are tangible,
verifiable, timely, and measurable.
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Employee Training
Determining Training Needs
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Employee Training
On-the-job training methods
Job Rotation
Understudy Assignments
Off-the-job training methods
Classroom lectures
Films and videos
Simulation exercises
Vestibule training
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Employee Development
This future-oriented set of activities is
predominantly an educational process.
All employees, regardless of level, can
benefit from the methods previously used
to develop managerial personnel.
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Employee Development
Employee development methods
Job rotation involves moving employees
to various positions in the organization to
expand their skills, knowledge and
abilities.
Assistant-to positions allow employees
with potential to work under and be
coached by successful managers.
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Employee Development
Employee development methods
Committee assignments provide opportunities
for:
decision-making
learning by watching others
becoming more familiar with organizational
members and problems
Lecture courses and seminars benefit from
today’s technology and are often offered in a
distance learning format.
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Employee Development
Employee development methods
Simulations include case studies, decision games
and role plays and are intended to improve
decision-making.
Outdoor training typically involves challenges
which teach trainees the importance of teamwork.
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Organization Development
What is change?
OD efforts support changes that are usually
made in four areas:
The organization’s systems
Technology
Processes
People
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Organization Development
Two metaphors clarify the change process.
The calm waters metaphor describes unfreezing
the status quo, change to a new state, and
refreezing to ensure that the change is
permanent.
The white-water rapids metaphor recognizes
today’s business environment which is less stable
and not as predictable.
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Organization Development
OD Methods
Organizational development facilitates long-
term organization-wide changes.
OD techniques include:
survey feedback
process consultation
team building
intergroup development
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Organization Development
Survey feedback assesses organizational
members’ perceptions and attitudes.
The summarized data are used to identify
problems and clarify issues so that
commitments to action can be made.
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Organization Development
Process consultation uses outside
consultants to help organizational
members perceive, understand, and
act upon process events.
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Organization Development
Team building may include:
goal setting
development of interpersonal relationships
clarification of roles
team process analysis
Team building attempts to increase trust,
openness, and team functioning.
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Organization Development
The Learning Organization
Values continued learning and believes a
competitive advantage can be gained from it.
Characterized by:
capacity to continuously adapt
employees continually acquire and share new knowledge
collaboration across functional specialties
teams are an important feature
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Evaluating Training and
Development Effectiveness
Evaluating Training Programs:
Typically, employee and manager opinions are
used,
These opinions or reactions are not necessarily valid
measures
Influenced by things like difficulty, entertainment value or
personality of the instructor.
Performance-based measures (benefits gained) are
better indicators of training’s cost-effectiveness.
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Evaluating Training and
Development Effectiveness
Performance-Based Evaluation Measures
Post-training performance method. Employees’
on-the-job performance is assessed after training.
Pre-post-training performance method .
Employee’s job performance is assessed both
before and after training, to determine whether a
change has taken place.
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Evaluating Training and
Development Effectiveness
Performance-Based Evaluation Measures
Pre-post-training performance with
control group method.
Compares the pre-post-training results of the
trained group with the concurrent job performance
of a control group, which does not undergo
instruction.
Used to control for factors other than training
which may affect job performance.
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International Training and
Development Issues
Cross-Cultural Training
Necessary for expatriate managers and
their families:
before assignments (to learn language and
culture)
during, and after foreign assignments (to
adjust to changes back home).
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International Training and
Development Issues
Cross-cultural training is more than language
training
Involves learning about the culture’s:
History
Politics
Economy
Religion
Social climate
Business practices
May involve role playing, simulations and immersion
in the culture.
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International Training and
Development Issues
Development
Often, organizations do not do a good job of
planning for the return of overseas managers.
Leads to the managers’ being frustrated
Returning expatriates can:
be assigned a domestic position
prepare for a new overseas assignment
retire or be terminated