Topic for Discussion: New Employee Orientation / Socialization
Forum Questions: Discuss what your experiences have been with new employee orientation and/or on-boarding procedures when joining a new organization. What was your best experience and why? The worst? After completing the reading for this week, what would you have done differently to improve the process?
Instructions: To prepare for this forum discussion, you must read a minimum of two of the required journal articles associated with this forum. Your initial post must be at least 300 words.
FROM THE READING:
Employee Socialization & Orientation
The purpose of new hire orientation is to assimilate the new employee into the organization through a formal program as rapidly as possible. If this is not done, the void will still be filled. Unfortunately, it will be filled with information that is inconsistent, disorganized, and inefficient. By bringing pertinent information directly to employees during their first week, they are acclimated far more quickly. This is true, provided the information shared is organized in a logical way that reinforces appropriate on-the-job learning.
A recent research study finds that new hire orientation should be less about the company and more about the employee. In an article titled “Breaking them in or Eliciting Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers’ Self-expression,” published in the March 2013 Administrative Science Quarterly, a research team found that the traditional method of telling a group of new hires about the corporate culture, it is better to include them in the corporate culture right from the start.
This is done by shifting the focus away from the organization and onto what each employee believes he/she brings to the organization. When this discussion occurs in a group setting with other new employees, the identity of each employee is encouraged to come to the forefront. As such, the organization is letting the employee know right from the start that their opinion, technical expertise, knowledge, skills, and abilities are essential to the ongoing success of the organization.
According to data provided by the Bureau of Labor & Statistics (BLS), more than 25 percent of individuals living in the United States experience a career transition each year. With this said, transitions to a new company and/or position within an existing company, are not always to the advantage of these employees.
For example, half of all hourly workers leave new jobs in the first four months, and half of senior outside hires fail within 18 months. The good news is that an effective employee onboarding program, designed to help new hires adjust and adapt to their new organization, can be accomplished with a reasonable level of effort (see the report published by SHRM titled: Onboarding New Employees: Maximizing Success). This report outlines best practices associated with onboarding, as well as provides useful tools to help ensure that onboarding programs for new hires are successful.
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In this assignment, you will create a presentation for your organization to explain how successful collaboration can improve success and provide competitive advantages.
Scenario: Your organization has used a variety of collaboration systems developed by some project managers. Some of these systems were successful while others were not. Your organization has one unique challenge—many of your employees are staffed at other locations or work from home (telework). You would like to standardize the collaboration process to improve team communication for all company projects. In your presentation, you should include the elements listed below.
Explain why collaboration information systems (IS) are important from the organization’s perspective.
Discuss how collaboration tools can improve team communication.
Identify three tools that will be used for synchronous communications and three tools that will be used for asynchronous communications. Be sure to explain why you made these choices.
Describe how project files, such as Microsoft (MS) Word, MS Excel, MS Project, and MS Visio, will be shared with team members. Be sure to explain the rationale behind your choice.
Explain how the task list for managing tasks will be shared with team members. Be sure to explain the rationale behind your choice.
Discuss how this new collaboration IS could provide competitive advantages for your organization.
Your presentation should be a minimum of seven slides in length (not counting the title and reference slides). Make sure to use images, graphics, and diagrams. Must Add speaker Notes to slides
You can use an industry of your choosing or examples from your personal or professional experiences in developing this assignment. You can also use the resources in the Unit II Suggested Reading section to assist you with this assignment.
Be sure to follow the 7×7 rule (i.e., there should be no more than 7 words per line and no more than 7 lines per slide). You are required to use speaker notes to discuss the bullet points on your slides.
You must use at least two academic resources to support your presentation, and you must cite (in APA format) any information on your slides or in your speaker notes that came from these sources.

In Lesson 2, in the 2.1 Introduction section, we discussed that there is a process to writing, but that there is no one, specific, start-to-finish process. Instead, the process is cyclical as we learned throughout the lesson. Additionally, you learned that it is important to understand yourself as a writer and that you have your own process.
Please respond to this prompt by reflecting upon your own writing process. You may choose to use the guiding questions/prompts below as a way to begin your reflection; however, you do not have to address all of the questions. The objective of this reflection is to become better acquainted with the process that you go through when writing.
*Recalling the last correspondence that you wrote, what was your process? For example, if the last correspondence you wrote was an email, what was your process in writing that email?
*Do you approach each academic writing assignment in the same way?
*What are your feelings about writing? Have you always had these feelings?
*Do you have the same feelings about all writing or just writing for which you will receive a grade?
*Do you begin by gathering your thoughts or by writing down everything you know?
*Do you always follow the same process every time you write, or does your process seem to change depending upon what you are writing?
*How does your process change (if at all) between writing prepared for work versus writing prepared for your academics?
*What is your best outline of your process for an essay?
*Did you find any of the materials in Unit II about process particularly helpful or inspirational? Why?
*Did you find the notion of “invention” as a canon of rhetoric to be interesting or productive? Why?
*What was your process for writing this reflection?
Remember that this is a piece of reflective writing, and while we tend to consider reflective writing to be about “how far we have come,” it is not necessary for that to be the case. Looking in the mirror at our reflection is not an act about the passage of time or about growth; it is about being able to see ourselves where before we could not. So remember to be kind to yourself. You are a beginning writer, and this is an exercise about discovering who you are as a writer so that we can work together to build who you will be

Effects of Mass Media WorksheetWrite brief 250-to 300-word answers to each of the following:What were the major developments in the evolution of mass media during the 20th century?How did each development influence American culture?
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Step 1 Think of the best manager you have ever had. What made this manager so great? List one of the qualities/characteristics that stand out in your mind as important in making him/her an “Ideal Manager.” Step 2 Write a brief statement describing the manager (top manager; middle manager; first line manager), the setting (current manager; manager at a previous job) and the quality/characteristic that stood out to you about this manager. Back up your opinions with references and in-text citations to course readings, lectures or external articles.