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Onboarding or organizational socialization is the American term for the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders. In varieties of English other than American English, this may also be referred to as "induction". In the United States, up to 25% of workers are organizational newcomers engaged in onboarding process. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: OnboardingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Effectiveness of formal onboarding for facilitating organizational socialization: A systematic reviewInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Fault-tolerant on board digital information switching and routing for communications satellitesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: "Hello AI": Uncovering the Onboarding Needs of Medical Practitioners for Human-AI Collaborative Decision-MakingCited 502 times
- Go sideways: Organizational commitmentA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Person–environment fitA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process of bringing a new employee on board, incorporating training and orientation.
Verb present participle and gerund of onboard
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
"Hello AI": Uncovering the Onboarding Needs of Medical Practitioners for Human-AI Collaborative Decision-Making
Understanding Generation Z expectations for effective onboarding
Conversational robo advisors as surrogates of trust: onboarding experience, firm perception, and consumer financial decision making
Specific Onboarding Practices for the Socialization of New Employees
On Becoming (Un)Committed: A Taxonomy and Test of Newcomer Onboarding Scenarios
Exploring onboarding success, organizational fit, and turnover intention of software professionals
Let Me In: Guidelines for the Successful Onboarding of Newcomers to Open Source Projects
Organizational Support for Nurse Manager Role Transition and Onboarding
🆕 Influential since 2022
Effectiveness of formal onboarding for facilitating organizational socialization: A systematic review
Digital onboarding and employee outcomes: empirical evidence from the UK
Clinical Implementation of the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System: Key Considerations for Training and Onboarding People With Diabetes
Digital Onboarding: Facilitators and Barriers to Improve Worker Experience
An onboarding model for integrating newcomers into agile project teams
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Fault-tolerant on board digital information switching and routing for communications satellitesMary Jo W. Shalkhauser · 1993
- 📕Loran-C performance assurance assessment programRobert W. Lilley · 1992
- 📕In-flight demonstration of a Real-Time Flush Airdata Sensing (RT-FADS) systemStephen A. Whitmore · 1995
- 📕Fault tolerance in space-based digital signal processing and switching systemsRobert Redinbo · 1994
- 📕Semiconductor laser-based ranging instrument for earth gravity measurementsJames B. Abshire · 1995
- 📕Development and performance of the ACTS high speed VSATJ. Quintana · 1999
- 📕Space Communications Technology Conference Onboard Processing and SwitchingLewis Research Center · 1991
- 📕Proceedings of the Scientific Data Compression WorkshopH. K. Ramapriyan · 1989
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