Placement Induction and Socialization

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Placement, Induction

and Socialization
Placement
• Placement involves assigning jobs to the selected candidates

• It is matching of what the supervisor has reason to think the


candidate can do which the job demands

• Most employees are put on a probation period after which


his/her employment is confirmed

• Only in rare cases an employee once placed, is asked to quit


from his/her job
CONSIDERATIONS IN PLACEMENT OF
EMPLOYEES
•Job requirements
•Suitable qualifications
•Adequate information to the job incumbent
•Flexibility
•Commitment & loyalty
Importance of placement
• It helps in reducing employee turnover.

• It helps in reducing absenteeism.

• It helps in reducing accident rates.

• It avoids misfit between the candidate and the job.


BENEFI
To New Hires
TS To Organization

Suitable Reduced cost time of hiring

Satisfied Improved quality of new hires

Productive Enhanced retention

Learn & grow Improved efficiency &


productivity
Orientation, Induction or
Indoctrination
• It is welcoming a new employee to the organization

• It’s the task of introducing the employees to the organization &


its policies, procedures & rules

• Billimoria defines induction as “a technique by which a new


employee is rehabilitated into the changed surroundings and
introduced to the practices, policies and purposes of the
organization”
Objectives of Induction
• To reduce the initial anxiety all new entrants feel when they
join a new job in a new organization

• To familiarize the new employees with the job, people, work


place, work environment in the organization

• To facilitate outsider-insider transition in an integrated manner

• Creates a good impression

• To reduce the cultural shock faced in new organizations


Induction procedure
The procedure should basically follow these steps:

✔ Welcome to the organization and show him around the


workplace and facilities
✔ Give a brief profile of the company
✔ Provide details about various work groups and the extent of
unionism within the company
✔ Give an overview of the future training opportunities and
career prospects
✔ Clarify doubts, by encouraging the employee to come out with
questions
✔ Introduction with his team & supervisor
Informal induction
• This is an unplanned induction programme.

• This may be simply an introduction to the new entrant about


the job and organization

• It may last for one hour or so and there can be two versions:

• Supervisory system
• Immediate supervisor conducts the induction

• Buddy or sponsor system


• Immediate supervisor assigns the responsibility of induction to an old
employee
Formal induction
• It is a planned programme carried out to integrate the new
entrant into the organization

• This is usually carried out by large organizations

• It includes the following contents:

• Brief history of the organization


• Organizational mission, vision, objectives and philosophies
• Policies and procedures
• Rules and regulations
• Organizational structure and authority relationships
• Terms and conditions
• Welfare and safety measures
Socialization
• It is a process of adaptation that takes place as individuals
attempt to learn the values and norms of work roles

• In fact, induction is only a part of socialization

• Induction is confined to the new recruits only ; whereas


socialization covers transfer and promotion as well
Phases of socialization process

• Pre-arrival

• Encounter

• Metamorphosis
cases
• cases for placement induction.pdf

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