Deck 14: Organizational Career Management

Question 1

Sonnenfeld and Peiperl characterize an organization that is open to external recruitment at all levels and promotes on the basis of merit as being like a

A)Baseball team
B)Academy
C)Club
D)Fortress
E)Market

Answer 1

A

Question 2

The relationship between career self-management (CSM) and organizational career management (OCM) tends to be

A)Highly negative
B)Somewhat negative
C)Neither negative or positive
D)Somewhat positive
E)Very positive

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to the book, which of the following is not beneficial to OCM practices?

A)Investment in organizational resources
B)Fair selection for participation in development exercises
C)Avoiding follow-up of development activities due to the negative reactions it causes.
D)Separation of performance ratings from OCM
E)Connection of OCM to organizational HRM and strategy

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Recent studies by Clarke, Rodrigues and Guest, Hall and Las Heras and others show that organizational careers

A)Have disappeared
B)Are increasing in frequency
C)Are still practiced by some people
D)Reduce organizational competitiveness
E)Continue to be the norm for most workers

Question 5

According to the book, the key starting-point to the organizational management of careers is for the organization to

A)Know what OCM is supposed to achieve
B)Appoint a specialist manager to manage the function
C)Feel empathy towards employees
D)Have low labor turnover
E)Have a loyal workforce

Question 6

'PDP' is an organizational career management technique. It stands for

A)Personnel development process
B)Productive dialogue planning
C)Personal development plan
D)Plan for departmental progress
E)People development process

Question 7

The case of Josie emphasizes that

A)Career actors can build their careers without assistance from their organization
B)Organizations can be used by career actors to develop their careers
C)Organizations can provide culture and practices to support employees' careers
D)Rigid organization structures are often damaging to their employees' careers
E)Career success is facilitated when left to career actors' capable organizations

Question 8

Since the 1980s, organizational careers have been weakened by various trends in organizational design. Which of the following was not one of them? A Downsizing B Delayering
C Casualization D Specialization E Outsourcing

Question 9

Cascio changed his view that careers should be managed by organizations, and went on to maintain that they should be controlled and managed by

A)HRM departments
B)The government
C)Career actors
D)Trade unions and professional associations
E)They are essentially unmanageable

Question 10

'Contest mobility' refers to a career mobility system in which employees compete for higher positions within the framework of

A)Political connections
B)An open market
C)High-level sponsorship
D)Ruthless and sometimes unfair competition
E)Sophisticated HRM