- CASE STUDY- Onboarding and Performance Management
- The purpose of the activity is for you to explain and evaluate different recruiting, selection, onboarding, and performance management methods.Assignment alignment with Course Competencies:
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- Recommend recruiting, selection, and performance management solutions or initiatives to address dynamic customer and stakeholder needs.
- Interpret HR recruiting, selection, and performance management issues and challenges to develop strategic solutions and interventions.
- Critique recruiting, selection, and performance management initiatives to ensure alignment with HR and organizational strategies
Develop each answer to the fullest extent possible, including citations from course references, where applicable, to support your arguments.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the onboarding process for Hubbs. What elements of the new hire orientation and onboarding processes would be particularly important to his successful performance?
- Assume the role of the manager in this case. How do you handle a new employee who lacks the specific skills that were presented during the selection process? How do you determine if additional training is the solution and how much training is reasonable or expected? How would you know if training is not the solution?
- Discuss the risks versus the benefits of the managers decision to have Hamrick mentor Hubbs. Overall, do you think this decision was effective? If you do not agree, who do you think would have been a more suitable mentor for Hubbs and why?
- Evaluate the managers process of handling Hubbs performance problems. Was it effective or could it have been handled differently? Was anything overlooked? What other factors besides lack of skills or ability could have contributed to Hubbs poor performance? How could the manager have mitigated some of these factors?
- Considertheperformanceissuewiththemarketingdepartment.Whathappenswhen poor performance by a team member affects a departments reputation and credibility? What options should the manager consider in rectifying the situation?
- The manager needs to act. What are her options, and what factors and/or additional information must she consider before making a decision? What are the implications of this decision for the team?
- ReviewCaseAandreflectontherecruitingandselectionprocessesusedtohire Hubbs.
- Howcouldtherecruitingand/orselectionprocessesbeimprovedto mitigate the new hires performance issues?
- Whateffectcouldtherecruitingand/orselectionprocesseshavehad on Hubbss subsequent performance and his teams perceptions of his performance?
Requirements: As long as the question is answered to the fullest extent with citations it doesn’t matter

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