Onboarding: The Missing Link to Productivity

Workplace productivity drives organizational performance. In a competitive market, it enables organizations to expand product and service offerings, increase profitability and improve market share. Despite the obvious benefits to the business, productivity is driven by and dependent upon strategic HR and talent initiatives. According to Aberdeen's 2012 Onboarding research, the talent process with the greatest impact on workforce productivity is onboarding. Understandably, new hires that are able to get up to speed more quickly are able to produce more quickly. While many studies have focused on the ways onboarding improves engagement and retention, organizations still struggle to translate onboarding initiatives into workforce productivity. How can a successful onboarding program improve productivity? What do organizations need to consider in order to build and to sustain this program? This report, based on research conducted in March and April 2012, will shed light on these critical questions and help organizations start to think strategically about linking onboarding to ongoing organizational performance.

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