Management Bug: Lack of People Onboarding

A MngtBug is a problem, cause or impact in a human manager’s decision which produces an incorrect or unexpected result.
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Description

This week’s “Lack of People Onboarding” is too common to ignore.

By definition, onboarding is the process of integrating a new employee into the organization and its culture. It’s management jargon first created in the 1970s that refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective organizational members and insiders.
(Extracted and adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onboarding)

Too many hiring executives think that the battle of the onboarding is won when the candidate accepts the offer. The assumption is that after a few introductions and free lunches with key colleagues, the candidate should…