Exam 9: Career and Management Deveopment

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 which of the following?

When a management development program is individualized and it is aimed at filling a specific executive position, this process is usually called which of the following?

Which training technique do trainees act out the parts of people in a realistic management situation?

Predicting an employee's potential is related to which promotion decision made by employers?

What is the deliberate process to identify career-related goals and establish action plans to attain specific goals part of?

In this off-the-job management development technique, teams of managers compete with one another by making decisions regarding realistic but simulated companies. What is this technique called?

The use of an experienced individual to teach and train someone with less knowledge in a given area is called which of the following?

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

Traditional career paths involving a single, committed occupational choice are no longer a reality. Instead, career planners must stay informed about all of the job-specific requirements and offer a best fit of career patterns, focusing on adding information and content to enable employees to achieve a range career ambitions. Which life trajectory is this related to?

Amy is the new director of learning and development at a pharmaceutical company, Medica Inc. She is designing a new management development program. Identify and describe how Amy might implement two different management development techniques.

What is a concern or value that a person will not give up if a choice must be made?

A company-based method for exposing prospective managers to realistic exercises to develop improved management skills is referred to which of the following?

Developmental job rotation is a management training technique used to identify an employee's weak points.

Rita made a choice to leave a mid-sized law firm and start her own law practice. She wants to deliver legal services to clients in a different way that it has traditionally been delivered. Rita also values the fact that she now chooses which clients to accept work from and which area of law to practice in. Rita most likely has which of the following career anchors?

Which training technique are management trainees allowed to work full-time analyzing and solving problems in other departments?

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

The Vocational Preference Test (VPT) identifies six basic personality types or orientations. Which of the following is one of these?

Which traditional leadership style is losing its effectiveness?

At the executive level, 70 percent of learning comes from individuals such as mentors and coaches.

The person with the primary responsibility of managing an employee's career with an organization is which of the following?