Organization must constantly expands their knowledge, skills and behavior to meet customer need and compete in today‟s demanding and rapidly changing business environment. They are trying to increase employee skills, knowledge, and competency by giving training. The first initial training and development efforts in the organization is orientation for new employee that informs them about the organization, the job and the people they will be working with.

Orientation for new comer differs from one company to the others, the need and objective of the orientation for new comer has driven the form of an orientation training program for new comers. Different perspective on how the company value its employee whether as an asset or as a tools to gain company goals has create different form of new comer orientation training programs.

This paper is aim to gain deeper understanding on new comer orientation training program by studying case studies in 4 companies located in Indonesia. The different characteristic in the ownership of the company has given different style on its orientation training for new comer. Different perspective on valuing employee has given different format of the new comer orientation training which reflected in its content of the training.

Organization must constantly expands their knowledge, skills and behavior to meet customer need and compete in today‟s demanding and rapidly changing business environment. They are trying to increase employee skills, knowledge, and competency by giving training. The first initial training and development efforts in the organization is orientation for new employee that informs them about the organization, the job and the people they will be working with.

Orientation for new comer differs from one company to the others, the need and objective of the orientation for new comer has driven the form of an orientation training program for new comers. Different perspective on how the company value its employee whether as an asset or as a tools to gain company goals has create different form of new comer orientation training programs.

This paper is aim to gain deeper understanding on new comer orientation training program by studying case studies in 4 companies located in Indonesia. The different characteristic in the ownership of the company has given different style on its orientation training for new comer. Different perspective on valuing employee has given different format of the new comer orientation training which reflected in its content of the training.

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