How Are Employees Provided with Needed Skills and Knowledge?

  1. 9-3 Explain how employees are provided with needed skills and knowledge.

If we’ve done our recruiting and selecting properly, we’ve hired competent individuals who can perform successfully on the job. But successful performance requires more than possessing certain skills! New hires must be acclimated to the organization’s culture and be trained and given the knowledge to do the job in a manner consistent with the organization’s goals. To achieve this, HRM uses orientation and training.

How Are New Hires Introduced to the Organization?

Once a job candidate has been selected, he or she needs to be introduced to the job and organization. This introduction is called orientation

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