Induction program

According to Lashley and Best (2002), the replacement of worker is major activity in many organizations. Lashley and Rowson (2000) claims that many organizations spend large amount of time and money to recruit new workers and keep losing staff. Bringing new staff into the firm is a stressful and uncertain process.

Recently I learn from HRIS class that there have system that induction program by system either online or computer based. This really let me surprised because in my mind that all induction program must be face-to-face training.

When I first day join the company during internship period, my company held induction program to all of the new employee include me. At the moment, there are 6 internship student attend the induction program, the program include introduce the management team, the company policy, requirement, and company background. The training is conduct in their training room. We also have a factory tour to let us know where is the place for each department, the location of factory’s canteen and assembly point when happen emergency.

Using the system, the company can save their workforce to conduct induction training. For long term, the trainer can save many time and avoid burnout. However, it may become the new worker not familiar the working environment although they know their rules and regulation. Thus, I think it is important to combine 2 types of training. That is computer based and classroom training.

From my little experience from internship, my company suffers from conduct induction program because of the new worker join in different day in a week. For example, 1 worker join at Monday, and other worker join at Wednesday. HR executive need to do the same training in different days. If they can use the system, I think their workload will be decrease.

Lashley. C., & Best. W.(2002), “Employee Induction in Licensed Retail Organisations”. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 14/1, 6-13.

Lashley,C. & Rowson, B (2000) “Wasted millions: staff turnover in licensed retailing”, Proceedings of 9th Annual CHME Research Conference, University of Huddersfield.