Online Induction System

Every employer recognizes the importance of a proper staff induction program. Apart from having to collect and classify every employee’s work-related personal information, an employer has to fulfill certain legislative obligations, including occupational health and safety issues, to ensure they meet regulatory compliance standards as well as ensuring employee safety. Online Induction methods go a long way to discharging this responsibility, whilst at the same time ensuring that employees assimilate into a new work environment with confidence and knowledge. There are some reasons for developing online staff induction programs, along with some simple explanations of how the process can work in organizational environment. First is poorly planned staff induction program often results in poor employee performance on the job and can also contribute to new employees becoming uncomfortable in their new surroundings, even becoming alienated from the company culture. Second is because of cost-effective online induction program for new employees make it easy to manage and report on the progress of new staff as they acquire the skills they need to do specific jobs or use specific machinery. Although keeping accurate records can be time-consuming, it pays huge dividends when it comes to writing management reports or tracking processes if a safety concern is raised. The other reason for developing online staff induction program is multimedia presentations can be incorporated into the program to make learning not only more effective but more enjoyable as well. In fact, an online trading system can be easily integrated into other automated systems such as payroll and human resource. In high risk industries like construction, or in work sites where contractors regularly move from site to site, tracking the skills of each employee is easier and can prevent inappropriate allocation of responsibilities, especially when it comes to using complex equipment or working in dangerous situations. There also different groups of employees benefit from specifically targeted programs, which is easy to implement in an online induction system. These programs can be delivered in-house by developing your own programs, or by outsourcing course material to experts who can deliver an attractive online experience for your employees and employers can obtain valuable feedback from employees that can help shape future policies and induction programs. This can be done by arranging for outsourcing experts to contact their employees and identify such issues as things that motivate or annoy them and what they like best and least in the program. Online induction programs are easy to implement and, when managed properly, can not only discharge responsibilities as an employer but provide a useful tool for managing valuable human resources, now and in the future.

Reference:

Filip Zelezny and Nada Nayrac(2008). Inductive logic programming: 18th international conference, ILP 2008, Prague.