Exam 10: Assessing Internal Candidates

Succession management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity.

A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it ________.

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

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?

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

A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on ________.

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

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 help train him and assess his performance.This process of internal assessment is called ________.

Due to union contracts or company policies,some organizations promote employees because of seniority.

Plan out what internal assessment methods should be used in a multisource assessment program to determine redefined field sales managers' roles within an organization.Keep in mind that the sales managers work in teams and give reasons for the methods chosen.

________ 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 result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?

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

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

An insurance company assesses all employees' current job skills and creates road maps for them outlining the competencies they need to advance within the company.The company then makes sure they get the training they need,including coaching and mentoring,classroom training.This is an example of ________.

Why should succession management be integrated with career development?

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

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)________.

The value of the nine box matrix depends most heavily on ________.

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