Introduction                                                                                                         (top) 

The BbyB Beacon is an electronic publication to keep the members of Bit by Bit informed about the current affairs of the company. It contains announcements of important events like training programmes, Management Review Meetings, etc.

Contact Information
Any contribution to the newsletter in the form of technical articles, or items of general interest, are welcome. Please send them to Pratima@bbyb.com.

Editorial
Employee Orientation

New employee orientation effectively integrates the new employee into the organisation and helps in retention, motivation, job satisfaction and quickly enabling each individual to become a contributing member of the work team.

Usually there are two or three steps in the orientation process. There must be a general orientation, a departmental orientation and job-specific orientation.

General Orientation is usually managed by either the Training Department or the Human Resources Department, the Departmental Orientation by the Department Head, while the Job-specific Orientation can be carried out by an experienced and trained.

These guidelines are intended for people conducting the General Orientation:

A general rule of thumb for having the audience interested in the general orientation is to

1. Make them feel at ease (open circle)

2. Make sure that they had enough time to read the employee manual before the orientation time

3. Spend a good amount of time in self-introductions, spiced with open questions

4. Get them acquainted with the Management by having a big chart in the orientation/training room which depicts how the organisation is set up, with photos of the management team next to their title

5. Get them acquainted with the work set-up by having another large chart in the room depicting the flow of work and communications regarding the organisation; this flow should include customers, suppliers and all parties affecting the organisation.

6. Have them know and see departments in operation

7. Allay their fears and doubts by covering subjects that are usually never mentioned in orientations, such as the difficulties new employees or supervisors experience, about turnover figures, about how people assimilate better after hanging out three months, about how they can turn to you for any difficulties they experience, be it regarding their rejection by existing old-timers or other matters. Let them know they can always turn to you for confidential advice

8. Encourage friendships among new employees. Try to create a team spirit among the existing group of newcomers - by the end of the day or the two days you will have created a group of employees at different levels and from different departments who will co-operate and enhance communications across the organisation

9. Extend respect to them as human beings. Have lunch with them as a group.

10. Enable first-hand contact with upper management. Have different Executives come to welcome the group and assure them of management's commitment to help them succeed. Introduce each of the newcomers, dwell on their position, career background and personal interests.

11. Assure them how the organisation welcomes their observations and comments

12. Last but not least, sharing company goals with them. Discuss it with them. Ask what their own personal and career goals are and try to right there and then mesh their own goals with the company goals.

This strategy cuts down employee turnover drastically, builds up trust, co-operation and motivation.

Pratima.

Other News                                                                                                           (top) 

Farewell to Anuradha

Anuradha Sheshagiri, a member of the MESaLS team resigned on 20th August 2004.
Let's wish her all the best in her future endeavour.

Meetings and Events                                                                                             (top)
Management Review Meeting

A management review meeting will be held in the month of September.

After his recent visit to UK, Naveen briefed the MESaLS team on the enhancements done on the Huntleigh version on the 25th of August at 5 PM. This was exclusively for the members of the MESaLS team.

News From Abroad                                                                                              (top) 
Shashi and Naveen in U.K.
Shashi and Naveen left for U.K. on 10th August 2004 and will be back on 4th September 2004.

New Recruits                                                                                                       (top) 

Two more people are joining the BbyB family on first September:
Prathiba, an Engineer in Computer Science, has been recruited as a Domain Member - Data Prepping

Priya, who has completed her MCA from Madras University, has been recruited as a Domain Member - ASP

Holidays                                                                                                                (top)


17th September 2004 Friday Gowri / Ganesha Festival

Upcoming Birthday                                                                                              (top)
Many Happy Returns of the Day

Raghul celebrates his birthday on 25th September.