Human Capital Management module 3

1. HUMAN CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT
Module 3- HR
DEVELOPMENT

2. Orientation
The process of making new employees familiar with the present employees and practices of the organization is termed as Orientation
Purpose of Orientation:-
1. Formally welcoming the employees
2. Overcoming Initial uneasiness and hesitation
3. Exchanging information
4. Assessing employees
5. Acclimatizing employees
6. Controlling HR cost
7. Developing team spirit
8. Socializing employees
Process of Orientation
1. General orientation:- make the employee
comfortable. Employee is made aware of
the history, business objectives, processes
2. Departmental orientation:- employee is
made aware of his role, responsibilities,
and operating practices of the
department, made familiar with each and
every activity of the department.
3. Specific Job Orientation:- employee is
oriented with assignments as per the JD
and methods to complete those
assignment.

3. Types of Orientation
1. Formal and Informal:- conducted formally through a procedure by understanding the needs of the new employees
which enables them to commit lesser mistakes during their working period and helps them develop good harmony with
others. Informal orientation is unplanned wherein the employees get acquainted with the organization’s processes
through their own experience using trial and error method.
2. Individual and Collective:- Collective orientation is meant for employees working in a common function to standardize
their views, less expensive, less time consuming. Highly trained professionals undergo individual orientation.
3. Serial or Disjunctive:- serial induction is the one in which a senior employee takes responsibility of training the newly
appointed person, he acts as a tutor, trainer or a role model for the new recruits. When such facility is not given to the
new appointees, when there is nobody to guide and motivate them, then such s scenario is termed as disjunctive
induction. Serial helps in maintaining the customs of the workplace, but it reduces the scope of creativity. Disjunctive on
the other hand promotes the creative and inventive efforts as there is no pressure on new recruits to carry the tradition.
4. Investiture and Divestiture:- High profile appointments are based on the idea of Investiture orientation. Such
individuals are given the liberty to decide his office interiors and choosing subordinates to taking various managerial
decisions. However, divestiture is just the opposite. This methods attempts to modify the characteristics of new recruits by
making them more acceptable to other employees and more appropriate for the organization. They are made to suffer
from simulated humiliation and harassment from senior officials to test their adaptability.

4. Contents of the Orientation programme:-
1. Organizational issues:-
2. Employee Benefits:-
3. Introduction to the existing members of the organization:-
4. Job duties:-
Requisites of Effective orientation:-
5. Involvement of top management:-
6. Prior planning
7. Assessment of information needs
8. Feedback session
9. Giving knowledge to new employees
10. Gradual introduction rather than superficial introduction:-
11. Sufficient time should be given to new employees:- to become accustomed to the work situation.
12. Induction must include all necessary information
13. Direction by experienced worker
14. Concluding session
Benefits of orientation
1. Reduces labour Turnover
2. Helps to create realistic employee
expectation
3. Create Job satisfaction and Positive
attitude towards employer.
4. Assist the employees to contribute
towards organizational success quickly

6. Nature and Importance of Training
Nature of Training:-
1. Specific Dimensions:- Training has well defined beginning and end points.
2. Planned sequence of events:- It enables them to do things they have not done before and it is supported by certain
objectives.
3. Makes optimum use of opportunities for learning
4. Promotes behavioral changes:- It helps in bringing a positive change in behavior of the employees
5. Decrease in Production expenditure:-
6. Reduces chances of accident
7. Brings steadiness in the organization
8. Increase employee confidence and morale
9. Improved levels of quantity and quality
10. Identification of efficient and non-efficient employees
11. Minimum need of supervision
12. Useful for managers so that they can focus on other vital issues
13. Improves the understanding power.