Exam 10: Assessing Internal Candidates

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

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

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

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

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

Succession management means identifying specific back-up candidates for specific senior management positions.

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

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)liability is often greater with internal versus external assessment and staffing efforts.

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

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

External customers are the best source of information on employees' task behaviors.

After choosing the position on which to focus,the first general step in a succession management project is to ________.

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

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 weaken the Tom's argument?

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

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

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

What is a multisource assessment system and what are the sources typically used? What are the strengths and limitations of each rating source?

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

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