Successful onboarding of new employees into the organization is key to their satisfaction and retention. The onboarding process not only directly affects the individuals involved, but indirectly also affects the productivity of the team to which he or she onboards. Employee turnover is a natural cycle for every business, but we want it to have a minimal impact on the business, it has to be addressed systematically. Companies in Slovenia take on different ways of onboarding from complete go-with-the-flow, stand-alone approach to innovative and systematic approaches. Companies who follow world class HR practice and findings are increasingly moving towards a systematic approach of onboarding while also extending their onboarding period. Traineeships are a way of onboarding, which is, in Slovenia, regulated and structured to some extent by the state. But it does not cover all the elements of successful onboarding.
In my master's thesis, I wanted to research how the introduction is set in theory (literature) and to compare it to an onboarding process in a large Slovenian company, which has recently started a structured onboarding program. I tested my theoretical findings by interviewing six employees, from which I was able to see the effectiveness of the onboarding process by comparing the company's old, unstructured onboarding to today's structured.
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