Exam 10: Assessing Internal Candidates

The advantage of using self-assessment is that people are often good judges of their own talents.

Assigning a new employee to regularly meet with a more senior,more experienced employee to further the career development of both employees is ________.

Why do some firms prefer to call groups of employees targeted for accelerated development "acceleration pools" rather than "high-potential pools"?

RBC Electronics is a retailer of electronic appliances.If Sandy does not see or understand the work processes and rules that influence RBC employees' task behaviors and has limited knowledge of the regulations,policies,and resources that affect employees' behavior,then Sandy is most likely a(n)________.

An organization claiming to provide an environment in which employees can grow their careers has to ________.

Prestige Pegasus is a multinational firm that specializes in the manufacturing of hardware for high-end technical products and sells its products mostly through business-to-business interactions.Following a good year with soaring profit-margins,Prestige Pegasus is planning to conduct an internal assessment throughout the organization.In a meeting following the decision to conduct the internal assessment,Douglas McCarthy (the Chief Operations Officer)and Tom Castleback (the Chief Marketing Officer)are the prime contributors on the methods that the organization should use to perform these assessments. Douglas: "We should encourage 360-degree feedback,mostly concentrating on subordinates,as they would be the right people to judge their superiors." Tom: "We should definitely use 360-degree feedback,mostly from external customers,as they are the ones who matter in the end." Which of the following,if true,would most strengthen Tom's argument?

Matthew works as an accountant in a mobile phone company.During lunch he spoke to Peter from the sales department about wanting to buy a mobile phone for himself.Peter persuaded Matthew to buy a mobile phone from the sales department itself,which Matthew did.Matthew is a(n)________.

Succession management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity.

________ rely on trained psychologists to subjectively analyze a candidate's attributes,values,and styles in the context of a particular job.

Which of the following would be required to provide critical skills to employees that might be needed in the future?

External customers are often best for evaluating an employee's ________.

Career planning is a continuous process of self-assessment and goal setting.

When employees are turned down for the promotions or lateral moves for which they were considered,it rarely affects productivity.

Managers' involvement and commitment is critical to the success of the succession management process because ________.

A firm's internal assessment goals tend to be the same as its external assessment goals.

In the career crossroads model,each passage requires that the person ________.

If a company wanted to quickly identify which employees speak Spanish,what would be the best way to do this?

Why should succession management be integrated with career development?

A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on ________.

Multisource assessments involve the employee's supervisor as well as other sources that are familiar with an employee's job performance.