Finding the right person to take up the post is only the first step to success. The first 90 days are key in determining whether the new employee will acclimate smoothly to a work environment with its own dynamics and procedures. Team onboarding helps the new member and the rest of the team to cultivate a fruitful collaboration. One of the many advantages of a well-structured onboarding programme is that it integrates the employee into a new workplace in a cost-efficient way.
Team onboarding
- Aberdeen Group, 2012, Onboarding: the missing link to productivity
- Keith Ferrazzi, HBR
- SHRM Fundation (https://www.shrm.org/foundation/ourwork/initiatives/resources-from-past-initiatives/Documents/Onboarding%20New%20Employees.pdf)
- Fang, Duffy in Shaw, 2011, The organizational socialization process: Review and development of a social capital model. Journal of Management, 37(1), 127–152.