This Competency Assessment assesses the following learning outcome:
HR400M5-5: Develop an orientation plan to use when onboarding new employees.
Compose a 3-page paper that outlines an employee orientation plan for the following scenario. You are the human resource manager for a 300–employee insurance company and you would like to start a new employee orientation program. To get approval from the company’s senior managers, you develop a plan that outlines the reasons for conducting orientation and what content the program will include. In this plan you will need to:
1. Identify the reasons and purpose for conducting employee orientation.
2. Outline what would be covered in organizational and departmental orientation.
3. Indicate the length of the program, who conducts it, and what formats will be used.
4. Describe if and how you would incorporate a web–based component into the program.
Minimum Submission Requirements
• Proper notification of any Resubmission, Repurposing, or Reworking of prior work per the Purdue Global Student Coursework Resubmission, Repurposing, and Reworking Policy Resource.
• This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 3-4 page) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
• Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your paper should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
• Your paper must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
• Your paper should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
• Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
• A separate page at the end of your research paper should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the Internet for research.
• Be sure to use in-text citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. For additional help with writing and APA formatting, please visit the Writing Center, accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area of the course. (Your paper should include a title page, be double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font, include correct citations, in Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors, and list correct references on the references page.)
If work submitted for this Competency Assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored.
