Question 1

Successful career development requires actions from three sources: the organization,the employee,and the employee's:

Accepted Answer

Successful career development requires actions from three sources: the organization, the employee, and the employee's immediate manager.

Question 2

Career pathing is a technique that addresses the specifics of:

Accepted Answer

Career pathing is a technique that addresses the specifics of progressing from one job to another in an organization. It can be defined as a sequence of developmental activities involving informal and formal education, training, and job experiences that help make an individual capable of holding more advanced jobs.

Question 3

Which of the following is a benefit an organization receives when employees engage in career self-management?

Accepted Answer

The payoff of career self-management is more highly skilled and flexible employees and the retention of these employees.

Question 4

In most cases,it is preferable to have ____ conduct career counseling for an employee.

Accepted Answer

Career counseling may be performed by an employee's immediate manager, a human resource specialist, or a combination of the two. In most cases, it is preferable to have the immediate manager conduct counseling with appropriate input from human resource personnel.

Question 5

An individual's self-assessment should be:

Accepted Answer

An individual's self-assessment should not necessarily be limited by current resources and abilities; career plans normally require that the individual acquire additional training and skills. However, this assessment should be based on reality. For the individual, this involves identifying personal strengths-not only the individual's developed abilities, but also the financial resources available.

Question 6

In Blue Crescent Inc.,plateauing of careers has become highly prevalent.Which of the following practices may be contributing to this problem?

Accepted Answer

Certain factors in today's work environment help explain why plateauing may become more prevalent. The fact that employers are now depending more on older employees may well cause plateauing problems. Also, today's employees are generally educated and thus enter organizations at higher positions. A third factor is that fewer promotions occur during recessionary periods.

Question 7

Managers acting as good career counselors should:

Accepted Answer

Career counseling is very personal and has basic requirements of ethics, confidentiality, and privacy.

Question 8

Maya is a project manager in her company.She has many responsibilities concerning the career development of the employees in her team.As an advocate,her role in the career development of each employee will involve:

Accepted Answer

As an advocate Maya's role in an individual's career development will involve working with employees in designing a plan for redress of a specific issue at higher levels of management, working with employees in planning alternative strategies if a redress by management is not successful, and representing an employee's concern to higher-level management for redress of specific issues.

Question 9

Which of the following refers to the role of a broker in the career development roles of managers?

Accepted Answer

As a broker, a manager's role in an individual's career development involves assisting in bringing employees together who might mutually help each other in their careers, assisting in linking employees with appropriate educational or employment opportunities, helping employees identify obstacles to changing present situation, and helping employees identify resources enabling a career development change.

Question 10

Nava Systems Inc.is initiating career development throughout the organization.Which of the following should be the major organizational objective of this initiative?

Accepted Answer

For Nava Systems Inc., career development has three major objectives: • To meet the immediate and future human resource needs of the organization on a timely basis. • To better inform the organization and the individual about potential career paths within the organization. • To utilize existing human resource programs to the fullest by integrating the activities that select, assign, develop, and manage individual careers with the organization's plans.

Question 11

The point in an individual's career where the likelihood of additional hierarchical promotion is low is called a:

Accepted Answer

A career plateau has been defined as "the point in a career where the likelihood of additional hierarchical promotion is very low." Career plateauing takes place when an employee reaches a position from which she or he is not likely to be promoted further.

Question 12

An example of personal satisfaction gained through career planning is:

Accepted Answer

With a career plan, a person is much more likely to experience satisfaction while making progress along the career path. A good career path identifies certain milestones along the way. When a person consciously recognizes and reaches these milestones, he or she is much more likely to experience feelings of achievement.

Question 13

A concise statement of career goals in measurable terms constitutes an individual employee's:

Accepted Answer

A vision statement is a concise statement of career goals in measurable terms. A vision statement can help an individual stay on track and avoid events that don't positively relate to his or her career.

Question 14

Veronica wants to be an efficient career counselor.According to behavioral research,which of the following will contribute to successful counseling?

Accepted Answer

It is not necessary to be a trained psychologist to be a successful career counselor. In fact, behavioral research and actual experience suggest that the characteristics that make people likable and effective are basically the same qualities that contribute to successful counseling.

Question 15

Carla works as an assistant manager at a software development company.She has identified her career goals and developed a plan for achieving those goals.The process Carla is involved in is referred to as ____.

Accepted Answer

The process Carla is involved in is referred to as career planning. Career planning is the process by which an individual formulates career goals and develops a plan for reaching those goals. Career development looks at individual careers from the viewpoint of an organization, whereas career planning looks at careers through the eyes of individual employees.

Question 16

Traditionally,what has been the most frequently used source of information that has been used by organizations for assessing employees?

Accepted Answer

Organizations have several potential sources of information that can be used for assessing employees. Traditionally, the most frequently used source has been the performance appraisal process.

Question 17

When a manager's career development role is that of an appraiser,he or she:

Accepted Answer

As an appraiser, a manager's role in an individual's career development involves identifying critical job elements, negotiating with the employee a set of goals and objectives to evaluate performance, assessing the employee's performance related to goals and objectives, communicating performance evaluation and assessment to the employee, designing a development plan around future job goals and objectives, reinforcing effective job performance, and reviewing an established development plan on an ongoing basis.

Question 18

The senior management at Red Marble Media Inc.wants to ensure that its career development and advancement programs are effective.This requires identifying and eradicating career-related myths among lower-level employees.In this context,identify a myth that is most likely to be held by employees?

Accepted Answer

A common career-related myth held by employees is that there is always room for one more person at the top. This myth contradicts the fact that the structures of the overwhelming majority of today's organizations have fewer positions available as one progresses up an organization.

Question 19

Pascal regularly updates and adjusts himself to the changes that occur within the organization and the industry he works for.This ability enables him to effectively prepare for the future.This denotes that Pascal ranks high in ____.

Accepted Answer

Pascal ranks high in career self-management. Career self-management is "the ability to keep pace with the speed at which change occurs within an organization and an industry and to prepare for the future."

Question 20

The primary responsibility for preparing individual career plans rests with the:

Accepted Answer

The primary responsibility for preparing individual career plans rests with the individual employees. Career planning is not something one person can do for another; it has to come from the individual.

Quiz 10: Career Development