Exam 10: Assessing Internal Candidates

Skills inventories are databases of the skills,competencies,and other relevant characteristics of each employee.

Which of the following is a limitation of using supervisors in performance reviews?

________ is(are)used to reenergize employees and give them the opportunity to develop skills and pursue other interests via workshops,formal classes,or travel.

The focus of the career crossroads model is on ________.

The first passage in the career crossroads model is managing others.

Which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multisource assessment?

How can internal assessment enhance a firm's strategic capabilities?

What is the nine box matrix and how is it best used?

When an employee quits because he/she is passed over for promotion,what has occurred?

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 statements,if true,would support Douglas' argument?

Having administrative assistant job candidates perform a set of exercises including taking phone messages,typing reports,scheduling meetings,and filing is an example of a(n)________.

Peer ratings tend to do a poor job predicting promotion criteria.

More and richer information is usually available about external rather than internal job candidates.

Adam has joined an advertising firm as a junior executive.Due to his lack of experience,he has a lot to learn and has been assigned as a protégé to Mark,a senior executive in the firm,who will assist in training and assessing his performance.This process of internal assessment is called ________.

A clinical assessment puts job candidates through a series of simulations and exercises that reflect the typical challenges of the job.

An additional ethical issue involves the ________ of an employee's application for another position in the company.

Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by ________.

Assessment of leadership potential can identify future talent and lead to a more comprehensive leadership development program.

The ongoing process of systematically identifying,assessing and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance is ________.

Which of the following would result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?