Chapter 09 – Career Development
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[QUESTION]
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.
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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.
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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
Essay Questions
[QUESTION]
41. Your organization has decided to develop a career development system and you have been
asked to lead this project. What steps would you take to develop such a system?
Answer: An organization must perceive a need or problem, have a picture or vision of how
the change will affect the organization, determine an action plan or steps for intervention, and
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42. Describe several career development programs that are methods for evaluating employees’
potential for growth and development within an organization.
Answer: Methods for evaluating employees’ potential for growth and development within an
organization include assessment centers, psychological testing, promotability forecasts, and
succession planning.
Assessment centers can provide in-depth developmental feedback to participants regarding
[QUESTION]
43. Describe at least three problems that repatriates face in their companies and suggest how
the company might solve the problem.
Answer: Repatriates feel out of place in the corporate culture of the home office. Companies
could retrain and reorient the repatriate to help them with the transition. Repatriates receive
[QUESTION]
44. Explain the benefits of a career development system for an organization.
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45. List a few tips to help managers be more effective as coaches.
46. List a few advantages and problems of E-mentoring.
Answer: E-mentoring has numerous advantages including: (1) greater access to mentors, (2)
reduced costs of administering the mentoring program, conducting training, and reproducing
[QUESTION]
47. List a few steps that organizations can take to eliminate the potentially adverse
consequences of entrenchment.
Answer: To eliminate the potentially adverse consequences of entrenchment, organizations
can take some of the following steps: (1) Offer generous severance pay packages to fund
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[QUESTION]
48. List a few guidelines for effective jobposting systems.
49. List a few recommendations to help the organization make the process of downsizing less
traumatic and fair.
50. List a few trends adopted by organizations to improve work-family balance.
Answer: A few trends include: (1) Increasing use of flexible work schedules and training for