ORIENTATION PROCESS AND TEACHERS EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL IN EKET LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IN AKWA IBOM STATE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
         The selection of the best person for a job is only the first step in building an effective management staff. Even companies that make efforts in the recruitment and selection process often ignore the need of new staff after they have been hired. Yet the first few days and weeks can be crucial for integrating the raw person into the organization.
According to Mullin, Orientation involves the introduction of new member of staff to the culture and environment of the organization, its policies and to the other members of staff. Effective Orientation is a process covering the first few months at work but it can be viewed as an extension of the recruitment and selection procedure starting with the selection process. Orientation should include attention to rules and regulations, familiarization operation of the organization and personal training and development needs.
         The first impressions of an organization and its managers are seldom forgotten. New members of staff face an unfamiliar environment and have to make a number of personal adjustments. A warm welcome, initial introduction and a properly planned and well-designed orientation programme will do much to re-assure members and will do much to re-assure members and their motivation and attitude to their work performance.
         The orientation programme should be designed to help new members of staff to familiarize themselves with their new environment to settle easily into their new job and to establish harmonious working relationship with other members to staff. Orientation should faster the realization of the psychological contract developed during recruitment and selection. The overall goal of orientation is to help new employees to easily adjust, adopt and fit into new work environment and settle down business with minimum difficulties and discomforts of recently employed workers include the following:
– To create in the employee an initial favourable impression of the organization and its work.
– To ease the new employee’s entry into the work group by reducing anxiety and enhancing inter-personal acceptance and trust and removing feeling of insecurity and lack of audience.
– To help ease members new comers adjustment problems to the organization. That is, it helps new employee to feel at home more quickly.
– To reduce cost of excessive labour turn over.
–Â Â Â Â Â Â Â To provide specific information concerning the task and performance expectation on the job systematically change the expectation attitudes and behaviours of new employees in a manner desirable by the organization.
– To create a sense of welcome security, self confidence and belonging (Peretomode, 2001)
         It is important to remember that people cannot fully absorb a large amount of information at one time particularly in what could be a strange and initially uncomfortable situation. The orientation programme should therefore be planned carefully and staggered over a reasonable period. It will also involve the active co-operation of managers, supervisors and colleagues.
ORIENTATION PROCESS AND TEACHERS EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL IN EKET LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA IN AKWA IBOM STATE
