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One of the first things that you must do on joining a new organization, is to get to know the various aspects of the organization. In fact, it is advisable to find out details about an organization before you join, or even before you attend the interview.

Understanding an organization would you an idea of the various operations and services and help you picture yourself as part of it. Moreover, you will be able to present your view comfortably, during discussions and conversations with peers and others. One of the most important advantages is that it would give you information about the work culture and practices followed.

>>> Information about and organization can be obtained from the following sources:

- Newspapers and magazines
- Persons working with the organization
- Other organizations within the industry
- Friends, relatives and others
- Internet

>>> The following are some of the detail that you must gather, pertaining to an organization:

- Legal status of the organization, whether it is a Private Limited, Public Limited, Registered Society, Partnership Firm, Etc.
- Profit or non-profit making voluntary organization
- Central Government, State Government, Public, Private, or joint sector
- Manufacturing or service sector, whether it involves consumer goods, capital equipment, or is knowledge intensive
- Field of activity, like banking, electronics, education. etc.
- Type of activity like production, maintenance, design and development, consultancy, training, software development, operation, end-user support, etc.
- Size of the organization, whether it is large, medium, or small scale
- Whether the organization is capital-intensive, labor-intensive, energy-intensive, technology-intensive or information-intensive
- Collaborations
- Vision of the organization
- Organizational structure
- Staff strength and composition
- Products and services range
- Marketing characteristics
- Hardware and software platforms used
- Quality orientation
- Business history

Everyone goes through different stages in life and performs different roles in each of these stages, as in expected of their age, situation and cultural or school norms. For Example, a small child forgetting to take his pencil to school, may be excused., whereas an executive working in a firm, being late for appointments, forgetting to keep up commitments, etc., may not be tolerable in a work situation. Thus, as one crosses the various stages in life, he or she has to prepare for adapting and meeting the expectations of people concerned.

The adaptation skills come in to play when one shifts from one role to the other, or from one situation to other. This is termed as the “Transition” stage. For example, there is transition stage between college life and professional career. Students would be expected to change and prepare themselves for more matured and responsible professional life.

While in college, many student are observed to be wearing casual dresses, not regular and punctual for classes, not attending certain sessions, not planning for exams seriously, not submitting assignments on time, etc. One does not plan activities ahead of time and primarily tend to take life easy. However, once on getting a job in any organization, things become different for fresh graduate. one is expected to be in formal dress or the dress code followed in particular organization and quickly adapt to the organization culture. Punctuality and prepared for all meetings, adaptation to various roles, application of training in real-time work environment, time management, team interaction skills, flexibility and customer focus, are some of the other important aspects expected of a fresh graduate in any organization. It is in this context that students go through a transition phase from college life to professional life. The faster one completes this transition, the more successful he or she would be in adapting to the work environment.