The current recession, may be
a temporary phenomenon
and business operations
are likely to return to normalcy in the near future. In normal business
operations, induction, as a process of taking new employees into the
organization, assumes great significance both, for the employee
and the employer and can be equated to something where an entity
enters into a legal and emotional relationship with some other entity.
The legal aspect of such a relationship between an employee and an
employer generally gets documented and encoded into an
employment contract, whereas the unexplained, largely assumed, emotional and
psychological relationship falls under the purview of a psychological
contract. Induction as a process helps the new hires in understanding
and making sense of both, the employment and the psychological
contract, better.
Everyone knows how vital the employee contract is, to the
new hires and to the organization. The concept of psychological
contract deals with the understanding of largely assumed sense of
attitudes, beliefs and expectations of work. Once selected, newcomers
actively try to make evaluative judgments about their employment
decision. This could be the make or break phase for the new hire, but it is
the best phase for the organization to appeal to their sense of
judgment of having made the right decision in joining the particular
organization. The criticality of the induction process lies in reassuring
the new hire about their decision and creating a bond for a
long-lasting relationship. |
