Chapter 3. Designing an Interactive Program

What’s in This Chapter?

  • Purpose and goals of a new employee orientation program

  • Elements of an effective program that addresses cognitive, affective, and behavioral learning domains

  • Supervisor’s preparation for the new employee’s arrival

  • What to cover on an employee’s first day

  • How to orient the new employee to the overall organization

Before you begin to design your new employee orientation program, you need to spend time upfront getting support, buy-in, and participation from others in the organization. You cannot design this program in a vacuum—you need to be clear about what the organization’s top management wants to accomplish in a new employee orientation program. Of course, you can give them some ...

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