"De är en förutsättning för att vi ska kunna existera" : En studie om hur organisationer arbetar med sin onboardingprocess

Sammanfattning: It is crucial for an organization to introduce a new employee in a favorable and efficient way to be able to ensure that the employee quickly reaches the desired productivity. Accordingly, this study intends to widen people's knowledge about how organizations design their onboarding process to make sure that their employees will have a successful entry and quickly adapt to the organization’s productivity. In this study, we have chosen the theory of human capital and organizational socialisation to specify different factors behind a successful onboarding. Furthermore, this study is based on seven qualitative interviews with different individuals who have experience within the human resources field and specifically have knowledge about their organization’s onboarding process and personnel issues. Throughout this study, three specific themes have been used in the process of creating questions for the interviews as with the results. These themes have been based on the purpose and issues of the study. The results from the study shows that to be able to promote productivity and commitment for new employees, most of the organizations work with social elements in the onboarding process as an underlying factor. Moreover, our interviewees meant that to be able to create a strong loyalty amongst new employees, a strong company culture has been shown as an important tool for organizations. Also, our interviewees talked about the importance of giving new employees reasonable expectations as they enter the organization as this will help them retain their staff. Furthermore, it turns out that most of the participants' organizations don’t perform any measures of competence amongst their employees, which leaves them not knowing where more competence is needed to be able to generate productivity and organizational success.