In Companies Where Intellectual Capital Is Crucial to Good Strategy

Multiple Choice

In companies where intellectual capital is crucial to good strategy execution, which of the following is generally NOT among the practices companies use to establish a talented knowledge base?

A) providing promising employees with challenging, interesting, and skill-stretching assignments and also rotating them through jobs that not only have great content but also span functional and geographic boundaries
B) providing employees promotions, salary increases, performance bonuses, stock options, and other perks
C) coaching underperformers and benchwarmers to improve their skills and capabilities
D) encouraging employees to challenge existing ways of doing things, to be creative and innovative in proposing better ways of operating, and to push their ideas for new products or businesses
E) fostering a stimulating and engaging work environment such that employees will consider the company a great place to work