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Impact of employee orientation on retention: A case of service sector organizations in Pakistan Employee orientation program is a process that gives new employee a warm welcome and introduces them with company structure, policies, vision mission, goals and objective. The program also includes giving a new employee clear image about company historical data, providing company development process and future direction, including clarifying employee benefits which provided by the company. The objective of new employee orientation (Lawson & Dolan, 2011): � To provide complete information to new employee that helps them to integrate easily and smoothly into the organizations.

� To introduce new employee with organization cultures, values, code of conduct and philosophy of the company.

� To identify importance of their role within the organization.

� To describe employee to their department goals and their performance in helping meet those goals.

� To promote communication between employee and management of company.

� To describe about companies expectation with them regarding policies and procedure of a company.

� To make employee feel welcome and provide them satisfaction that their decision proves to right by �joining the respective company.

� To creates a feeling of excitement about being a part of the organization and helps to motivate them for �their upcoming task that they would probably perform within the organization.

The process of this activity should started from familiarizing employee with the company by introducing the company, structure, mission, vision, goal, etc. which should make them aware with the company policies and their benefits and service plan. Then the company will introduce the new employee to other sub ordinates in different departments.

Employee orientation is important for both employees and employers. According to previous studies, the successful employee orientation could create a long-term relationship between employee and the company that leads to motivation, loyalty and job satisfaction. Therefore, this activity can decrease turnover rate within the company which results increase work performance, improve productivity level and sustain the company. In contrast, the company which are not concern with proper orientation session have negative effects on its organizational productivity.