Orientation and Placement

1. Orientation and Placement
Course: MBA SEM 2
Subject: Human Resource
Management
Unit 2

2. Orientation and Placement
 Orientation is a systematic and planned
introduction of employees to their jobs,
their co-workers and the organization.
 It is also called induction.

3.  Orientation conveys three types of information:
• General information about the daily work
routine
• A review of the firm’s history, founding
fathers, objectives, operations and products
or services.
• Organisation policies, work rules and
employee benefits

4.  Orientation Programme
• Formal or Informal
• Individual or Collective
• Serial or Disjunctive
• Investiture or Divestiture

5.  Formal or Informal
• Formal orientation is a structured programme.
• In Informal orientation new hires are directly
put on the jobs.
• Formal orientation helps the new hire to
acquire the known set of standards.
• Informal orientation leads to innovation in
solving the problems

6.  Individual or Collective
• Individual approach is likely to develop less
homogenous views.
• It is also expensive.
• It also denies the new hire the opportunity of
sharing anxieties with fellow appointees.
• Small firms prefer individual orientation as
they hire in small numbers

7.  Serial or Disjunctive
• Orientation becomes serial when an
experienced employee inducts a new hire.
• Serial orientation maintains traditions and
customs
• Disjunctive orientation creates more inventive
and creative employees.
• Individual fail due to role model in the
disjunctive

8.  Investiture or divestiture
• Investiture orientation seeks to ratify the
usefulness of the characteristics that the
person brings to the new job. Most high level
appointments follow this approach.
• Divestiture orientation seeks to make minor
modifications in the characteristics of the new
hire, though he or she was selected based on
his or her potential for performance.

9.  Topics often covered in employee
orientation programmes
1. Organisational issues
2. Employee Benefits
3. Introduction
4. Job Duties

10. Requisites of an effective
programme
 Prepare for new employees
 Determine information new employees
want to know
 Determine how to present information
 Completion of paperwork
 Evaluation of Orientation programme
 Problems of Orientation

11. Placement
 Placement refers to the allocation of
people to jobs.
 Changes in the work ethics reflecting the
demand for meaningful work-
 Increased government pressure to hire and
promote women and the disadvantaged,
 Heightened awareness of the fact that firms
have many jobs but each individual has only
one career.

12.  Placement problems
jobs in this context are classified
• Independent
• Sequential
• Pooled

13. Bibliography
 http://www.whatishumanresource.com
 http://www.mbaofficial.com
 Human Resource and Personnel
Management- K. Aswathappa, Tata
McGraw Hill