EOC: Week 8 - 9 to 5 Film

Judy Bernly was the new employee for the corporate Consolidated company, she began her first day and eventually Violet Newstead gave Judy a walk through of the workplace on that first day. The "employee orientation provides new employees with the basic background information they need to do their jobs; ideally it should also help them start becoming emotionally attached to and engaged in the firm." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 233.) When Judy began her employment at the corporate job, Violet was given the opportunity to show Judy the ropes on the workplace. Such as the "Training means giving new or current employees the skills that they need to perform their jobs, such as showing new sales people how to sell your product." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 235.). I find that this quote was very useful considering, when Judy first began the first day, the training wasn't necessarily very detailed oriented considering it was very fast paced. For an example, when Judy was being trained on her duties, and one of those duties was to work and be able to recognize how to be able to function the coping machine."Training is important. If even high-potential employees don't know what to do and how to do it, they will improvise." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 235.) And that is exactly what Judy did, during the training, Judy was rushed to the point she wasn't able to learn how to turn off the copying machine. If Violet was very efficient and maintaining in a timely manner, Violet would have been able to teach Judy on learning how to turn off the copying machine. Before introducing Judy into the workplace, she was exposed to, the employees. And being introduced to everyone at the office, Violet quickly told Judy all the gossip about each employee in the office. That statement then follows this quote that I've selected from the textbook, which is "Don't start out on the wrong foot, for instance, with an irrelevant joke." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 245.) With this quote, Violet had told her all the gossip which was just that gossip. And along with telling people gossip, some gossip tend to make a mark on the new people, as though as feeling a stigma on that person that is being the target in the gossip. I honestly think that following a model in training new employees would of been a better option in succeeding the new trainee in the office. Such as "behavior modeling involves (1) showing trainees the right (or "model") way of doing something, (2) letting trainees practice that way, and then (3) giving feedback on the trainees' performance." (Human Resource Management, pg. 246.) With this model of training, I honestly think that things would of been better on a positive note for Judy. With this method of training, the trainees would watch a recorded presentation, such as teaching the new trainee on how to present themselves. The next thing that the trainee would then go, would be a role-playing, which is basically teaching the trainees on any type of situation but in a role playing environment at the workplace. The third thing would be a social reinforcement, "the trainer provides reinforcement in the form of praise and constructive feedback." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 246.) And lastly the trainee would be in a position of "transfer of training. Finally, trainees are encourage to apply their new skills when the y are back on their jobs." (Human Resource Management, Pg. 246.) 


Citation

Dessler, Gary. Human Resource Management, 15th Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions, 2016. [The Art Institute].