Deck 10: Careers As Resources

Question 1

Psychological contracts appear in recent years to have changed to de-emphasize employee

A)Skills
B)Loyalty
C)Networks
D)Remuneration
E)Self-actualization

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The resource-based view of the firm argues that resources should be

A)Material, valuable and rare
B)Valuable, rare and inimitable
C)Rare, inimitable and utilizable
D)Inimitable, utilizable and material
E)Utlizable, material and valuable

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which of the following is not one of the four forms of career capital defined by Farndale et al.?

A)Social capital
B)Cultural capital
C)Financial capital
D)Political capital
E)Human capital

Answer 3

C

Question 4

'Employabilty' refers to

A)The condition of having a job
B)The likelihood to obtain or retain a job
C)The current labor market for getting a job
D)The supply of potential employees for a particular job
E)The attractiveness of an individual to a specific employer

Question 5

Which of the following is not true of 'careerists'?

A)They believe individual and organizational goals are incompatible
B)They seek to advance in organizations even if they don't deserve to
C)They pursue career advancement, power and prestige
D)They deceive others by pretending to be less successful than they are
E)They will use both positive and negative methods to get what they want

Question 6

The case of Naima, the programmer who specialized in Florex software, demon- strates that career prospects can be negatively affected by

A)Non-transferable skills
B)Lack of education
C)Bad luck
D)Organizational restructuring
E)An inadequate psychological contract

Question 7

The case of Adam Lovelock is used in the book to demonstrate

A)The exploitation of career actors as resources by their organizations
B)The long-term collaboration of a lifetime employee with his organization
C)The reciprocal investment of resources by employer and employee
D)The use of HRM for effective career development
E)The resource-based view of the firm

Question 8

A career actor's motivation and values are reflected in his or her competencies (DeFillippi and Arthur) A Knowing what B Knowing how C Knowing why
D Knowing whether E Knowing which

Question 9

The two determinants of human capital used by Lepak and Snell to differentiate appropriate styles of human resource management were

A)Value and potential
B)Potential and cohesiveness
C)Cohesiveness and complexity
D)Complexity and uniqueness
E)Uniqueness and value

Question 10

According to the resource-based view, companies build and sustain competitive advantage by developing appropriate

A)Human resource management
B)Career structures encouraging employees to remain loyal
C)A future-oriented view of resource needs
D)Core competencies
E)Long-term staffing strategies