Abstract

This study is based on a questionnaire survey, the people interviewed are the employees of the Hungarian units of four international companies and they had been working in their organization for less than three years at the time of the survey. This article presents the results of this questionnaire survey which reveals the role of the immediate superiors in the onboarding process, the extent and quality of the assistance based on the surveyed employees’ opinions. We also examined whether these opinions were influenced by the surveyed employees’ qualifications, the mentoring system or the lack of it and the employees’ work experience gained before joining the organization. Our results related to the superior’s evaluation also prove that during the onboarding process it is necessary to pay more attention to the new employee’s previous socializations scenes, that is, the employee’s educational level, qualifications and work experience or the lack of it. In the first part of our study, we determine the superior’s tasks related to onboarding, then we cover the material and the methods of the study (beside descriptive statistics we used non-parametric test). After then, we present and evaluate the results, and finally we summarize the most important findings of the article