The Changing Nature of New Employee Orientation: 'Staff Retention and Turnover Reduction' an Empirical Study in the Gambia's Public and Private Sectors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A Onochie
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Employee Orientation ◽  
New Employee ◽  
New Employee Orientation

scholarly journals Drawing conclusions about what co-participants know: Knowledge-probing question–answer sequences in new employee orientation lectures

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 516-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piia Mikkola ◽  
Esa Lehtinen
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
The State ◽  
Employee Orientation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
New Employee ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
New Employee Orientation

This study aims to uncover the processes of interaction through which knowledge acquisition in new employee orientation is monitored and controlled. Using video-recordings of orientation lectures as data, the study focuses on question–answer sequences in which the lecturer’s question probes into the state of the employees’ knowledge; in particular, it looks at the third turn of the sequence, in which the lecturer comes to a conclusion concerning the participants’ knowledge. This is shown to be an unavoidably practical accomplishment, which is contingent on both the often ambivalent responses of the participants and the design of the knowledge-probing question. Also, the lecturer orients to being responsible for providing the employees with the necessary knowledge that they do not have. The study contributes to discussion of the interactional organization of knowledge in institutional settings, and it sheds light on the pros and cons of lectures as interactional encounters.

Assessing new employee orientation programs

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 349-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose M. Acevedo ◽  
George B. Yancey
Keyword(s):  
Orientation Programs ◽  
Employee Orientation ◽  
New Employee ◽  
New Employee Orientation
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