This publication, the Supervisor s Guide for Orientation of New Staff , provi des a practical approach to developing such a program. With the assistance of supervisors and others, the Guide has been prepared in response to supervisors requests for orientation planning information. The Guide consists of a brief introduction, a description of your divisional human resource s office s role in orientation and a list of specific actions you can take to help your new staff member quickly become an effective performer. The employment process begins when your divisional human resources office assists you in recruiting and selecting the new staff member. Whether or not the successful applicant will become a successful staff member depends largely upon how well he or she m akes the transition to the job, to you as supervisor, to co-workers, to the department and to Johns Hopkins University.
Orientation is the process of actively managing the new staff member s transition to the new job.
Without your participation, this process cannot be effective. Orientation should be a shared effort in which the key roles belong to the new staff member, a representative from your divisional human resources office and you. The role of the new staff member is to learn the job quickly and thoroughly and to perform it effectively and efficiently. The role of the divisional human resources office is to provide the new staff member with an introduction to Hopkins as an employer and an overview of the Hopkins organization. Each new regular staff member is to attend a new employee orientation program conducted by human resources staff.