HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Informal Learning, Cognitive Dissonance, Educational Technology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Organization skilled at creating, acquiring, and transferring knowledge and at modifying its behaviour to reflect new knowledge and insights. Long-term, continuous socialization process in which employee/employer expectations or obligations are considered. Short-term, discrete efforts when company gives info/instructions in effort to help candidate gain required skill/knowledge to perform job adequately. Employee onboarding (orientation: procedure for providing new employees with basic background information about: the firm and the job. Helps reduce first day jitters and reality shock. Socialization: ongoing process of instilling in all employees the prevailing attitudes, standards, values and patterns of behaviour expected by company. Orientation: helps to clarify company"s expectations of an employee regarding his or her job (let the employee know what the company wants from them) so reduces first-day jitters and reality shock. Reality shock (cognitive dissonance): difference between what the new employee expected from new job versus realities.