Creative New Employee Orientation Programs. (Books in Brief)

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Creative New Employee Orientation Programs.

By Doris M. Sims

McGraw-Hill, 2002

360 pages

List Price: $39.95

ISBN: 0-07-138184-8

Employee orientation is both your first chance and last chance to get a worker started on the right track. Yet, writes Doris Sims in Creative New Employee Orientation Programs, few companies dedicate adequate resources to welcoming new workers. She cites a 2000 American Society for Training & Development report that found only 7 percent of training dollars went to new employee orientation.

That trend is changing. "More companies are starting to recognize the importance and value of this …