Re: Looking for an onboarding term

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

I have seen onboarding tasks.

Onboarding
- Task 1: Setup Profile
- Task 2: Complete payroll information
- Task 3: Complete Sexual Harassment Orientation (that ain't the right 
word.)

At the invention of the onboarding wheel back in the 1970's onboarding 
was introduced as a theory organizational socialization.
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/1934/?sequence=1 
<https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/1934/?sequence=1>

In the theory, organizational socialization is divided by "segments and 
boundaries." Segments are "domains." People in the domains are "members" 
who sometimes have roles. Roles are "seen to possess ... a content or 
knowledge base."

The word "tactics" is used. "The phrase, "tactics of organizational 
socialization" refers to the ways in which the experiences of an 
individual in transition from one role to another are structured for him 
by others in the organization."

More theories and models for onboarding are cited on Wikipedia but many 
borrow from the Van Maanen and Schein model introduced in 1979.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding

I prefer to use terms consistent with the core model being employed, 
rather than find a new buzzword or risk being colloquial.

If your onboarding is internal and perhaps role-based, then looking to a 
role-based organizational socialization model will likely lead you to 
the most copacetic term.


On 1/14/2020 11:41 AM, John Posada wrote: