Exam 9: Career Development

The deliberate process through which an employee becomes aware of personal career-related attributes and the lifelong series of activities that contribute to his or her career fulfillment is known as

Transfer policies have fallen into disfavour partly because of the cost of relocating employees and also because of the assumption that frequent transfers have a bad effect on the employee's

In one management training technique, the trainee works directly with the person that he or she is to replace.This technique is called the

Learning organizations engage in all of the following activities except

People who are attracted to work as biologists or professors are likely to have what kind of personality orientation?

Which of the following is true of mentoring programs?

A person's aptitudes, such as intelligence and mathematical ability, are often measured with

Edgar Schein identified all of the following career anchors except

An off-the-job management development technique which involves presenting a trainee with a written description of an organizational problem is called

Antonio owns several franchises of a successful quick-serve restaurant chain, which he manages as a single business enterprise.He built this business from the ground up, starting and then selling successful businesses in order to "buy into" the franchises.Antonio has two children, Susan and Alex, who are both now in their 20's.He would like them to take over the business from him when he retires.Susan and Alex both took the Vocational Preference Test (VPT)-Susan's type was identified as investigative and Alex's type was identified as realistic.Based on your knowledge of the VPT, assess whether Antonio should try to develop either Susan or Alex (or both)to take over the business.

The following are all advantages of the developmental job rotation technique except

Your colleague wishes to find a position with another employer and has asked you to define what is meant by networking as a career development tool.You advise her that

According to Schein, graduates who are mostly concerned with long-run career stability have a career anchor of

Harry's competence as a manager was rated very high.How is his competence defined and measured?

Hanan is the manager of a busy branch of a credit union.Her role in the career development of her staff includes

Most experts agree that one of the most important things that an employer can do is to provide new employees with

A training program in which trainees are first shown good management techniques (in a film), are then asked to play roles in a simulated situation, and are then given feedback regarding their performance, is called

Amy is the new director of learning and development at a pharmaceutical company, Medica Inc.She is designing the off-the-job management development program for Medica and will be including the case study method of learning.She wishes to improve the effectiveness of this method for the development of new management hires.Which of the following steps would not increase effectiveness?

A management training technique that involves moving a trainee from department to department in order to broaden his or her experience and identify strong and weak points is called

According to Schein, people who have a strong technical/functional career anchor tend to avoid decisions that would drive them toward