Although many organizations and Human Resource Professionals overlook the importance of onboarding new employees, this Human Resource Management process is extremely important for transitioning employees and is a moral and ethical duty owed to those employees. This paper identifies ten classic onboarding errors and suggests solutions to those ethical missteps. By correcting these errors, organizations can improve the transition of their new employees, build trust and commitment, reduce employee stress, and increase new employee productivity. Keywords: HRM ethical duties, Onboarding, New employee orientation, Employee relations, Ethical breachObjective: The purposes of this paper are to identify the ethically-related duties associated with onboarding new employees, to identify ten classic errors made in that process, and to identify how those issues can be addressed to honor duties owed to new employees. Methods:The paper incorporates the Human Resource Management literature about onboarding new employees and integrates that literature in identifying the ethical duties owed, errors often made, and solutions. Results:The paper suggests specific action steps to mitigate errors made in onboarding new employees and explains their ethical significance. Conclusions:Although many organizations mishandle the onboarding of new employees, the relationship between new employees and their organizations can be enhanced and improved by avoiding the ten classic onboarding errors identified in this paper.

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