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Onboarding Immigrant Workers in Small to Medium Enterprises of Less Popular Destinations

2025· article· en· W4416006574 on OpenAlexaffabout
Alicia Anna Piechowiak, Saul Carliner, Mostafa Ayoobzadeh

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademy of Management Proceedings · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInternational Student and Expatriate Challenges
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à MontréalConcordia UniversityUniversité du Québec
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOnboardingDestinationsImmigrationQualitative researchProcess (computing)Qualitative analysis

Abstract

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This qualitative study explores the onboarding of immigrants in four small to medium Canadian companies in less popular immigrant destinations and the perceived efficacy from the perspectives of non-immigrant executives, managers and non-managerial employees. Results from the inductive analysis of 28 semi-structured interviews produced a grounded model for onboarding immigrants in less popular immigrant destinations based on three main findings. First, onboarding is an iterative learning process consisting of seven overlapping phases. Second, onboarding programs should be framed by a culture of continual development, communication, and teamwork. Last, a novel contribution, onboarding is bi-directional, where training should be provided for both incoming and existing workers. Practical and theoretical implications as well as future research directions are discussed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.592
Threshold uncertainty score0.390

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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