1. Write a three- to four-page paper addressing the HRM topic of onboarding from the textbook, Bauers (2010) report, personal experience, and one organization with which you are familiar. Include at least one paragraph for each of the following in your paper:
   1. Introduction: Provide an introduction. Be sure to introduce the topic and the organization you have selected to write about in this paper.
   2. Onboarding: Define onboarding, describe the Four Cs of onboarding, and identify the three levels that most firms overall onboarding strategy falls into.
   3. Onboarding Strategy: Briefly describe your current organizations onboarding strategy (that is, content, process, and method(s) of evaluation).
   4. Strengths and Weaknesses: Of the four major levers that organizations can use to help new employees maximize their onboarding success (that is, self-efficacy, role clarity, social integration, and knowledge of culture), which of the four is an area of strength for your organizations onboarding process? Explain. Which is an area of weakness for your organizations onboarding process? Explain.
   5. Onboarding Program: Consider the gaps that may exist between the current state of your organizations onboarding program and the information provided in Bauers report; then, illustrate in both model and narrative form how you would develop, implement, and evaluate a revised onboarding program for your organization (similar to the Microsoft Onboarding Program shown in the report). Make use of the concepts, levers, tools, and best practices identified in the report (or elsewhere) in your model and narrative. This illustration is to be no more than one page in length and is to be placed in the appendix section.
   6. Onboarding Application: Describe how these same onboarding processes apply to retention strategies and practices, an AAP, and/or succession planning.
   7. Christian Worldview: Integrate the concepts of planning, from the perspective of onboarding, with an understanding of those same or similar concepts from a Christian worldview.
   8. Conclusion: Provide a conclusion.