Are Organizations On Board with Best Practices Onboarding?

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Klein, Howard J ^a   Polin, Beth ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment; New Hires; Newcomers; Onboarding; Orientation; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925068235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199763672.013.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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