Assignment: Employee Orientation Plan
Employee orientation provides an opportunity to welcome new employees, provide them with key information and to acclimate them to the organization's culture and practices. In this Assignment, you will develop an orientation plan for a company that includes an organizational and departmental orientation.
In this Assignment, you will be assessed on the following outcome:
HR400-5: Develop an orientation plan to use when onboarding new employees.
Learning Activity
It is strongly recommended that you complete this Learning Activity after completing all the unit Readings and before beginning your Assignment. This will help you practice important concepts related to skills needed for the Assignment.
Assignment: Before starting this Assignment, review the Assignment Checklist below. Using information from the text and resources from the Library write a 2-3 page paper that outlines an employee orientation plan for the following scenario.
You are the human resource manager for a 300-employee insurance company and you would like to start a new employee orientation program. In order to get approval from the company's senior managers, you develop a plan that outlines the reasons for conducting orientation and what content the program will include. In this plan you will need to:
1. Identify the reasons and purpose for conducting employee orientation.
2. Outline what would be covered in organizational and departmental orientation.
3. Indicate the length of the program, who conducts it and what formats will be used.
4. Describe if and how you would incorporate a web-based component into the program.