Employee onboarding is also known as organizational socialization!

A process which is used to help new hires settle well with the work environment. The main goal behind every employee onboarding process is to make them comfortable, work towards commitment and be productive. Expecting new hire to get productive without a proper way is a little unrealistic.

 It’s not easy though to settle in a new environment without taking much time. There are possibilities that new hires might have several questions and doubts before they turned out productive but there should be someone to hear them and this is where onboarding helps.

The onboarding process has been made considering some goals in mind which should be compatible with most of the organisations and they can be benefitted with it.

Making new employee productive in lesser time: For every organisation, the main goal behind recruitment is to get the best performance through talented employees. But this could be possible only when he gets to settle in a new environment.  New hires should get some job-specific orientation and training programs to make it easy. Onboarding program facilitates resource at every level to help to perform their role.

Facilitating the comfort level in the team: New employees shouldn’t feel isolated when they join their respective teams. A team manager should be made aware of new hires so that he can also help him settle. It’s more of teamwork and onboarding helps to make it possible. A satisfied and happy employee can perform better.

Encouraging and accepting employee’s engagement: A new employee might not be able to get the culture in initial days but that doesn’t mean he is devoid of ideas. He should be made part of all those discussions which happens within a team or for some project.

Engagement is important and so accepting his ideas or participation. Dismissing his ideas just because he is new or making a quick judgement on his work might affect his acceptance and can affect performance.

There are multiple benefits of employee onboarding:

Helps to retain talent: organisations who follow onboarding as crucial have more retention than those who do not. There is no denying the fact that onboarding is as important as any other training module. Onboarding certainly helps in retaining talent to the core. And this is what the main idea behind making new employees settle in a new culture, with the new set of employees and with the new team.

Early engagement: With the help of onboarding, new hires can get engaged in their work in much lesser time. They are more focussed towards their organisational goals rather keeping doubts in their mind. Onboarding helps them to bring clarity between their roles and organisational objective.

Certainly, they are quicker to show results with their talent for which they have been hired and the goal behind recruitment. Onboarding also keeps a tab on their productivity and working or helping them to get it if they have some trouble achieving those.

Helps business grow: Employees are being hired to be productive as soon as they join. Though onboarding is not about pushing them to get the targets it does help them to achieve one when the feel comfortable in the new corporate culture they joined in. Their satisfaction is ultimately leading to better productivity and helping the business to grow.

Building mutual trust: Mutual trust and teamwork are important in every company. Onboarding helps grow this mutual trust within teams and within the organisation by introducing them to various people and helping them understand how they work. Without it, there could be a dispute which can delay results

Brings transparency and open communication: Bringing transparency is possible when you set clear goals with the new employees and it starts from day one. Open communications help them to clear all the doubts they can have and how they can feel the value of a culture of the new office environment.

Onboarding has its feedback program where the new hire can give any feedback if he had a bad experience. This brings clarity and brings transparency to the system which is one of the best things in any corporate culture.

Reduces cost: Recruitment is a cost to the company. The amount of time and resource a company uses in this process is huge. There are teams who are dedicatedly working only on recruitment, filtering thousands of resumes and finding core talent. But what if that talented employee leaves in between just because they are not finding themselves comfortable in it. This is where onboarding plays a role and how it reduces the cost to the company.

There are various goals behind every onboarding and most of the companies work to get the best out of this process. Effective onboarding can make a huge difference in the benefits of the employee and for the organisation as well!