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31. Which of the following uses questions and exercises to guide individuals in determining their strengths and weaknesses, job and career opportunities, and necessary steps for achieving their goals?
A) Succession planning
B) Realistic recruitment
C) Career workbooks
D) Skills inventory
E) Career center
32. All of the following are benefits of a career development system EXCEPT:
A) evaluation of career tools and practices.
B) realistic staff and development planning.
C) helpful assistance with career decisions.
D) clarification of goals of the organization.
E) enhanced reputation s a people developer.
33.Succession planning is primarily the organization’s ability to?
A) Plan for specific international assignments for individuals
B) Provide opportunities for employees to understand their strengths and weaknesses
C) Understand future goals and identify a talent pipeline for senior positions
D) Test individual’s potential early in their career
E) Train managers as coaches and mentors
34. A number of organizational change initiatives can affect an individual’s career. These include the following EXCEPT:
A) downsizing
B) competency re-measurement
C) IT innovations
D) work-family balance
E) reorganizations
35. Programs that provide information on an organization’s policies, procedures, rules, work requirements, and other sources of information are called __________
A) orientation programs
B) socialization programs
C) executive coaching programs
D) repatriation programs
E) supervisor training programs
36. Tips for managers to be better coaches include the following EXCEPT:
A) Support the employee’s learning by asking them about the actions they have taken and how successful they were.
B) Provide positive feedback to employee regarding the career development steps taken by the employee.
C) Outline minimum performance requirements you expect of the employee in their current job.
D) Help employee to work on easiest career goal first.
E) Actively listen to the employee.
37. Your company is reorganizing based on an alignment with the introduction of a new strategy and product offering. You will be prepared to be a part of the new structure if you?
A) Maintain your current skill set and rigidly adhere to your personal definition of your job
B) Keep focused on ensuring that your current job remains relevant through the reorganization
C) Stay true to individual contribution, ensuring that management is aware of the work you do on an individual basis
D) Be careful not to look too far in the future, focus on past lessons and accomplishments
E) Develop self knowledge and remain adaptable and flexible in your skill set, and your definition of career
38. Which of the following is TRUE about entrenched employees?
A) The organization should understand that this is a natural progression in a career and there is nothing to be done except wait it out.
B) Career planning is not a solution to entrenchment. Employees need to have stability and preserve their positions.
C) One method to decrease entrenchment and the negative organizational impact, is to offer severance and portability of benefits to employees
D) Employee who have become entrenched need to continue to focus on their current job and stick with what they do best
E) Managers should focus on their newest employees and not waste resources on employees with long service.
39. Which of the following is true about career development?
Career development is:
A) a stand alone program, independent of the corporate strategy and other HR activities
B) useful and important at the beginning of an individual’s career, but not necessary for mid-level managers or average performers
C) focused primarily on the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, and structured around corporate strategy
D) linked to both organizational and individual performance, and both short and long term goals
E) an exercise that stems from the “wish list” of the employee’s promotional aspirations, not actual performance and realistic goals.
40.You are the manager of an employee who is scheduled to return from an expatriate assignment. In planning for their return you should?
A) Actually, there is no need to plan for their return. The employee will be placed in whatever position is open in the department when they return
B) Place them in a position that is one step below the position that they left in order to become re-acclimated with the organization and department
C) Review the employee’s level of compensation from their last U.S. based job and plan to place them in a job that is at that level of compensation.
D) Let the employee know that they will be placed in a temporary position when they return, and reviewed over a 9-month period for potential permanent placement
E) Have a discussion with the employee before they return and consider jobs that will utilize the skills they acquired while overseas
