Orientation / on Boarding of Human Services Direct Service Personnel

Organizational behavior is a field that extracts its contents from various social sciences. Universities utilize organizational behavior text's interdisciplinary approach to educate business professionals about behaviors occurring within organizations and the organizational behavior and social science relationship indicating an association between the two. The purpose of this study is to determine what effective means of orientation are and on boarding of front line human services professionals to organizations and their roles and its potential impact on retention. The desired orientation and on boarding mechanisms that were required; optional mechanism; and the effect solely optional orientation and on boarding mechanisms would have on employee retention. This was done qualitatively, and the results indicate that money and benefits were extremely important and that optional mechanisms increased employee retention rates.