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 that 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) Expecting employees to take full responsibility for staying up to date, thereby minimizing the need to train or retrain employees
C) Coaching average performers to improve their skills and capabilities, while weeding out underperformers and benchwarmers
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