What is Acculturation?

aka Socialization. aka Indoctrination.

Acculturation is an onboarding process that gently and methodically introduces an employee into a new role. Acculturation has also been called socialization and indoctrination. It's purpose is clear: expediently transition an employee into their new role, introducing them to their new team, introducing them to their new job, and if onboarding an employee from outside the organization, introducing them to their new company. The value of acculturation is to get the employee up to speed and effective as quickly as possible, which is both a boon to the company, and a boon to the employee: studies have shown that good acculturation creates happy employees, which means better retention.

Acculturation onboarding vendors typically offer this functionality through an onboarding portal where the new employee can find the tasks that are expected of them, learn about their new company, and meet their team. Emerald Software's AllegroHR Acculturation Portal goes a step further, integrating our award-winning Universal Onboarding platform with a true business process management (BPM) engine, and giving you complete control of ALL of your acculturation content, from links to pages, text to multimedia, and single sign-on to learning management and comprehensive orientation programs.

But while we offer the industry's best new employee acculturation portal, we also understand that you may have already invested in an employee communications strategy, either an Employee Self Service (ESS) portal provided by your HRMS vendor, or perhaps Microsoft SharePoint. If so, we can help you leverage your current technology investments; our Universal Onboarding platform is open and modular, so that it can be (and has been) integrated with many other employee communications strategies. This is often the best acculturation strategy: to immerse and engage your new employees in their long term communications medium.

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