HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGER’S NEW EMPLOYEES ORIENTATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS

Abstract

The study examined Human Resource Manager’s New Employees Orientation and Organizational Success in Nigerian Organizations.  The revealed that New Employees’ Orientations are deliberate attempts by an organization to introduce a new employee to what working for the organization will be like.  That New Employee Orientation teaches important knowledge, skills and abilities, also teaches a new employee about the organization’s history, goals, values, people, politics and language.  The specific objectives of study are: to investigate how reduction of anxiety and uncertainty affects communication effectiveness, how socializing new employees with supervisors and co-workers affects customer relationship, how favourable initial job experience affects employee competence and how compensation and culture of the organization affects employee satisfaction.  The study concludes that orientation is the process of introducing new employees to the organization so that they can become effective contributors more quickly.  Amongst others, the study recommend that the Human Resource Managers should always organize orientation for new employees that will reduce anxiety and uncertainty, build a structure that will facilitate socializing of new employees with supervisors and co-workers, ensures that content of the orientation contends favourable critical job experiences for the new employees, orient the new employees adequate compensation and culture that enhances the performance and success of the organization, etc.