Practicing the golden rule: Creating a win-win new employee orientation

DiMarco, Scott R.

doi:10.5860/crln.66.2.7386

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“…The library literature has limited information regarding onboarding best practices. Authors thus far are using the term "orientation" and focused on either individual institutional practices (Ballard and Blessing, 2006;Wallace, 2009), the importance of orientation (Mossman, 2005), or topics to be covered in an orientation (DiMarco, 2005). Yessin ( 2004), using a question and answer format, produced an introduction to law libraries that can be shared with new employees without law library experience.…”

Section: Onboarding In the Library Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employee onboarding: identification of best practices in ACRL libraries

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to identify best practices of employee onboarding, the process by which a new employee is introduced to an organization and its vision, mission, and values. Design/methodology/approach -Researchers requested that members of the Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) share documents related to employee onboarding and three researchers independently reviewed the documents. The collected documents were compared to the socialization model proposed by Raymond Noe, including the detailed aspects of the organizational phase and the key components identified in the best practices literature. Findings -In total, 17 institutions submitted documentation for review. All institutions discussed at least one or more of the key areas identified in the socialization process. Every institution in the study included a discussion of job expectations and evaluation criteria (100 percent); ten (59 percent) discuss mission, vision, and values; however, topics such as culture (five or 29 percent) and politics (one or 6 percent) were infrequently covered. Onboarding programs varied in length (one week to more than six months). Check lists were the most common tool used to manage the onboarding process. Other notable topics covered include dealing with change, understanding the team-based environment, diversity, library awards and library fundraising. Research limitations/implications -Because of the limited number of documents examined in this study, the research results may lack generalisability. Therefore, researchers are encouraged to test the proposed propositions further. Practical implications -Moving from a traditional new employee orientation model to a best-practices onboarding model will require HR professionals to conduct an internal assessment of the current program. Originality/value -Due to the high cost associated with recruiting new employees, the need for new employees to be fully functional and engaged as soon as possible, and the need to communicate performance indicators, the need to share best practices is important.

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Section: Onboarding In the Library Settingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employee onboarding: identification of best practices in ACRL libraries

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“…They discuss the orientation programs and the focus of the programs on employees learning about their news jobs and organizational culture. Dimarco (2005) and Ballard and Blessing (2006) provide examples of practical onboarding program development in the library context. Dimarco provides a very practical outline of the content an institution should share in an orientation program with a new hire.…”

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We Are Happy To Be Here: The Onboarding Experience in Academic Libraries

Keisling

Laning

2015

Journal of Library Administration

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“…Most of the articles discuss the value of orientations and/or onboarding and include goals, purposes, the need for communication and socialization and the value of pre first day on the job communication. Checklists are usually included as examples and range from paragraphs describing items to include in pre first day of the job packets to detailed lists of activities, policies and people with whom the new hire can interact (DiMarco, 2005), (Ballard and Blessing, 2006), (Camille and Wu, 2010), (Hall-Ellis, 2014), (Weiner, 2015). The Ladenson SPEC Kit also includes the raw data of a Qualtrics survey as a report.…”

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Survey on onboarding practices in Carnegie research institutions

Semenza¹,

Harden

Koury

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe survey findings on onboarding initiatives at the Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries. The findings would be helpful to libraries that are at the beginning of their own onboarding initiatives or that wish to compare ongoing efforts.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a survey of Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries using Qualtrics, an online survey software. Link to the survey with a short explanation was e-mailed to the 319 identified contacts and 111 responses were received at the end of the survey.FindingsSurvey responses revealed that the most prevalent types of onboarding initiatives are an orientation to campus policies and procedures and meeting with human resources. Half of the respondents introduce new employees to the social/cultural norms of the library informally, with responsibility for onboarding falling on the supervisor. Surprisingly, diversity and inclusion have not been identified as formal components of the onboarding by those who engage in it.Originality/valueSpecific research into the onboarding initiatives of Carnegie Doctoral Research Institutions of Higher Education libraries does not exist.

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Practicing the golden rule: Creating a win-win new employee orientation

Abstract: Creating a win-win new employee orientation The things you do and the impressions you create at the start of your tenure can shape the way your new colleagues think of you for years to come.

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Employee onboarding: identification of best practices in ACRL libraries

Employee onboarding: identification of best practices in ACRL libraries

We Are Happy To Be Here: The Onboarding Experience in Academic Libraries

Survey on onboarding practices in Carnegie research institutions

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