HRM200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Bilocation, Formal Methods, Performance Appraisal

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: Katrina Di Gravio

Document Summary

Employee onboarding: provide new employees with basic information about the firm/job. Executive integration: identify position specifications, emphasize competency, and give candidates realistic information while assessing their previous success with integration. Learning organization: creates and transfers knowledge and reflects its behaviour accordingly. Orientation: long term, process where employee/employer expectations are considered. Socialization: instilling attitudes, standards, values, behaviours in employees. Training: short term, process where information/instruction is given to gain knowledge/skills to perform adequately, investment in human capital, part of strategic plan. Negligent training: employer fails to prepare the employee who in turn harms a 3rd party. Controlled experimentation: formal methods to test a training program with control groups before/after training. Orientation: socialization, reduces reality shock/cognitive dissonance, foundation for performance, increase productivity and retention, reduces recruitment costs. Includes internal publications, tour, introductions, documents, training, performance appraisal criteria. 1: hr specialist: explain corporate information, follow up. Problems: too much information/forms, information too broad/details (hr . vs. supervisor)