Why Your New Employee Needs an Onboarding Program?
Mohammad Alowayni 🇸🇦, MSc-HR, Assoc CIPD, MCMI
20 years of experience, Master in HR, CIPD, CMI, Head of People & Culture, Head of HR, Human Resources, HR Director, HR Manager, HR Business Partner, HRBP, HR Lead, Head of Talent & Culture, OD, Chief HR, CHRO
Onboarding, why ?
You were successful in attracting a candidate to join your organization. The next challenging step is to integrate the new employees in such way that they can understand the company business and contribute to the success of the organization as soon as possible.
The onboarding program is about introducing a new employee to your organization. it affect how much an employee feels valued by the organization. Moreover, it serve to live up to the expectations of the new employees, confirming that they have made the right decision joining your organization. It should also motivate the new employees to stay with you for the long term.
- 90% of employees make their decision to stay at a company within the first 6 months.
- 22% of employees turnover happens in the first 45 days of joining.
- 1 in 3 newly hired employees leaves before the end of their first year.
- 69% of new employees more likely to stay because of effective onboarding program.
Onboarding program, who ?
Unlike the common conception that the HR Department is solely responsible of the onboarding program, onboarding of any new employee is a joint operation between:
- Line Manager.
- Mentor.
- HR department.
- New employee.
Onboarding roles & responsibilities, who - what ?
Onboarding program modules / contents
A typical onboarding program within an organization is usually contains:
Company Module
- Company overview
- Company history
- Company vision, mission & values
- Company strategy
- Company tradition & principles
- Organisational structure
- Network of Operations / Locations
- Company products / services
HR Module
- Job benefits
- HR policies
- HR processes / procedures
- Welcome package (softcopy / hardcopy)
- Employment contract
- Employee handbook
IT Module
- IT policy
- IT Helpdesk support processes
- Software required for the job
- Usage of company hardware / software
Job Module
- Department overview
- Department organisational structure
- Department specific policies, processes & procedures
- Meeting key employees within organisation
- Job description: role & responsibilities
- Job objectives / KPI / target
Onboarding package
It is helpful to create an onboarding package which contains all the documents and tools to ease the onboarding process. New employees may refer to the onboarding package, at any time whenever required.