Onboarding Practices And Employee Experience Outcomes In Selected Oil And Gas Companies
Dr. Maya J. Thompson
Department of Business Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Abstract
The study examined the relationship between onboarding practices and employee experience outcomes in oil and gas companies in Rivers State, Nigeria an extant review of literature relevant to onboarding practices and employee experience outcomes was ascertained. The study adopts a survey research design. The population of this study comprise of 440 employees from the four major four major oil and gas firms operating in River state, Nigeria. The Taro Yamen’s formula (1973) was adopted to determine the sample size from the population which was two hundred and ten. After data cleaning, 195 questionnaires were finally used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics was used for the primary analysis using mean scores and standard deviation, at the tertiary stage, the bivariate analysis was carried out to determine the strength and direction of the relationship between the onboarding practices and the measures of employee experience outcomes with the use of linear regression in other to test the stated hypotheses formulated for the study with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 25. The empirical findings revealed that there was a strong and positive relationship between onboarding practices and the measures of employee experience outcomes in oil and gas companies in Rivers State, Nigeria. The study concludes that, considering the acclaimed relevance of onboarding practices, with respect to employee experience outcomes, employers should wholeheartedly embrace onboarding practices in terms of job training, team introduction and facility tour in order to create awareness among new hire on the running of the organization. The study recommends that management of oil and gas companies in Rivers State, Nigeria under studied should make sure new hires are given the opportunity to move round the facility of the companies as a process of on boarding that will encourage the employees to be more productive on their job in the workplace
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