Talent/Career Management
Succession Planning
Career Development
Lifelong & Org'l Learning
Psychological Testing
100
The process that moves people from recruiting and selection through the organization to meet the employer's need for talent.
What is talent management?
100
Defining the positions that re most critical to the organization's strategy.
What is the first step in the succession planning process?
100
Rewards talented technical people who do not want to move into management.
What is a dual career ladder?
100
To be knowledged based.
What is the most important thing for a company to be to be considered a learning organization?
100
The least important testing in determining information about an employee's psychological skills.
What is technical skills testing?
200
Talent management is effective if this is in place for all holders of critical jobs.
What is succession planning?
200
The main succession planning problem in closely-held family businesses.
What is informal succession plans?
200
A collection of insturments and exercises designed to diagnose individuals' development needs.
What is an assessment center?
200
Lifelong learning contributes to this if the learning fits the employee's job.
What is job satisfaction?
200
A concern exists that Managers may use them to avoid difficult promotion decisions.
What are assessment centers?
300
A pipeline of talented people who are being developed for future organizational needs.
What is the goal of talent managment?
300
Goes beyond just high-level executives, middle and lower-level managers, and key non-management employees.
What is formal long-term succession planning?
300
An employee cannot advance within the organization.
What is a career plateau?
300
Organizational development efforts need to be tied to these.
What are current and immediate organization needs?
300
Used in assessment centers to evaluate each candidate.
What are teams and multiple tests?
400
Focuses on learning specific behaviors and actions.
What is training?
400
The design mapped out for steady upward progression through the organization.
What is a career path?
400
Has resulted in only 10-15% of corporate office positions being held by women.
What is a glass ceiling?
400
Focuses on learning judgement, responsibility, decision making and communication.
What is devlopment?
400
Causes more difficulty when employee is married to a spouse who has a professional career.
What is job relocation?
500
May result in the employee being prepared for different jobs.
What is the impact that development has on an individual's career?
500
Career planning focues on personal characteristics and life/work goals.
What is Individual-centered career planning?
500
Most job seekers value this over work/life balance or compensation.
What is career development?
500
Learning new skills to imcrease the employee's marketability?
What is a development technique called lateral transfers.
500
These have grown in importance since the last recession.
What are automated talent management systems?