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New employee development: A review and reconceptualization
Author(s) -
Holton Elwood F.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.3920070305
Subject(s) - socialization , psychological intervention , psychology , taxonomy (biology) , knowledge management , adaptation (eye) , task (project management) , process management , engineering ethics , applied psychology , computer science , management , social psychology , business , engineering , botany , neuroscience , psychiatry , economics , biology
The purpose of this article is to reconceptualize new employee development by. proposing a comprehensive taxonomy of the learning tasks that a new employee must complete (and that organizations should facilitate) to achieve desired levels of performance. For more effective development, the systems approach developed here integrates socialization learning with task learning in three categories of interventions. The socialization research most relevant to HRD and serving as a basis for part of the taxonomy is reviewed in depth. The taxonomy should enable HRD professionals to diagnose new employee adaptation and socialization problems, design interventions to facilitate more effective new employee development, and evaluate intervention outcomes. Implications for HRD practice and research are discussed, focusing on the design of new interventions to facilitate comprehensive development.