Varför onboarding? : En dokumentanalys av onboardingprocessens framställan i organisatoriska dokument

Sammanfattning

Onboarding is a strategy used as an introduction for new employees with the purpose to retain staff and skills in an increasingly competitive labor market. Onboarding aims to introduce the new employee to the organization. The new employee is expected to develop knowledge and skills that existing organizational members possess to become an effective organization member. The need for onboarding will probably remain and the study contributes to the sociological research about onboarding which is currently limited. Research has previously addressed the effects of onboarding in specific organizations and focused on the socialization process. Organizational socialization is the scientific explanation of how the new employee becomes an effective member of the organization, while the onboarding process is understood as a practical process of socialization that occurs at the beginning of the employment. This study uses document analysis to examine how the onboarding process is described in organizational documents. By including theories about onboarding, role and modernity, the study examines how organization, individual and society is considered in the documents. A successful onboarding process is described in a similar way in all documents. The reason for this is partly that all documents have been established by modern organizations in modern society where individuals have high demands on employers. Documents state that the onboarding process should be organized systematically and involve the entire organization. How the new employee deals with their role and understands the roles of other organizational members is crucial to becoming an effective member.