An effective new employee onboarding program provides new employees with the following information:

• Compliance: Teaching new hires the basic rules, regulations, and policies that define your company.
• Clarification: Educating new hires on their job functions and performance expectations.
• Culture: Advising new hires on formal and informal organizational norms, such as the company dress code.
• Connection: Helping new hires to build interpersonal and interdepartmental relationships in your organization.

As the HR Director for an organization, you will develop an effective new employee onboarding program that will last for approximately three months. Specifically, it will orient new employees to the organization for which they have been recently hired. Your onboarding program must contain the following components:

Organization's History

1. Welcome Statement
2. Overview of the Organization's Strategic Plan
3. Year the Organization was founded
4. Founder(s) information
5. Product or Service Provided
   1. What makes the organization different or better than competitors?
6. Number of Employees
7. Number of Years in Business
8. Mission Statement
9. Vision Statement
10. Organizational Values

Commitment to Diversity Statement

1. Diversity Policy
2. Diversity Practices

HR Policies Affecting New Employees

1. Work Hours & Workdays
2. Dress Code
3. Civility Statement
4. Sexual Harassment
5. Nepotism
6. Parking
7. Security Policies
   1. Computer Usage
      1. Emails
      2. Internet Security
   2. Employee Identification
   3. Office Keys
8. Compensation
   1. Pay Periods
   2. How the Employee will get Paid
   3. How to sign up for benefits

Employee Training

1. Required Training for all employees (Discuss at least three)
2. How the employee will demonstrate comprehension of new employee training
3. Performance Evaluation
   1. Explanation of employee performance evaluation process
      1. Performance Expectations
      2. Method used
      3. Evaluation Interval
      4. Discipline Process if Necessary

Conclude the onboarding program with a checklist for employees to track the information presented.

Provide references with in-text citations