The challenges of dealing with newcomers .................................................................... 1 Problem 1: Recruiting newcomers.............................................................................. 3 Problem 2: Selecting the right newcomers .............................................................. 15 Problem 3: Keeping newcomers around .................................

For newcomers to Canada, health care delivery varies from province to province. In New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, and British Columbia, newcomers are required to wait 3 months before they can enrol in a provincial health insurance program. Many newcomers purchase private health insurance to ensure health care coverage; however, those in one group of newcomers—refugees—are often unable to purch...

User-generated online communities such as online discussion boards have become an important element of life in information society. However, their success is accompanied with challenges. Particularly, online communities’ high reliance on user-generate content makes ensuring a continuous flow of newcomers vital to their existence. Newcomers face various difficulties due to their lack of commitme...

Aims The aim of this study was (i) to document the main features of surgery nurses' telephone calls, with a special focus on newcomers' calls; and (ii) to identify the main activities accomplished during the newcomers' calls. Design Mixed methods study. Methods We audio recorded telephone calls internal to the hospital in two surgery nursing stations. We performed statistical descriptive an...

 Minority groups, including newcomers, are disproportionately affected by HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) due to social and economic factors that increase their vulnerability to infection (1;2).  Newcomers living with HIV or HCV not only face barriers to treatment, they also face unique challenges which may include language barriers, lack of social support, stigma and systemic barriers such as lack...

Research in organizational socialization has primarily focused on newcomers who first entering an organization or taking a new job while the definition of organizational socialization has never been limited to complete newcomers but to all employees going through their career passages. Therefore, this paper attempts to draw attention upon incumbent newcomers who are not new to the organization ...

Success of online production communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board new sources of ideas and labor. However, these communities have been struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse population of users. In this work, we conducted a case study on how organizing an offline co-...

A common finding in social sciences is that member change hinders group functioning and performance. However, questions remain as to why member change negatively affects group performance and what are some ways to alleviate the negative effects of member change on performance? To answer these questions we conduct an experiment in which we investigate the effect of newcomers on a group's ability...

To remain sustainable, some open source projects need a constant influx of new volunteers, or newcomers. However, the newcomers face different kinds of problems when onboarding to a project. In this paper we present the results of a systematic literature review aiming at identifying the barriers that a newcomer can face when contributing to an Open Source Software project. We identified and ana...