Deck 10: Assessing Internal Candidates

Question 1

Due to union contracts or company policies,some organizations promote employees because of seniority.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

More and richer information is usually available about external rather than internal job candidates.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

When an employee quits because he is passed over for promotion,what has occurred?

A) a breach of employee ethics
B) a negative stakeholder reaction
C) succession management
D) external assessment

Answer 3

B

Question 4

A firm's internal assessment goals tend to be the same as its external assessment goals.

Question 5

Which of the following would be required to provide critical skills to employees that might be needed in the future?

A) competition
B) promotion
C) evaluation
D) training

Question 6

External customers are the best source of information on employees' task behaviors.

Question 7

The advantage of using self-assessment is that people are often good judges of their own talents.

Question 8

The first passage in the career crossroads model is managing others.

Question 9

Peer ratings tend to do a poor job predicting promotion criteria.

Question 10

A clinical assessment puts job candidates through a series of simulations and exercises that reflect the typical challenges of the job.

Question 11

Internal assessment typically improves a firm's strategic capabilities by ________.

A) conducting a legal audit of the staffing system
B) giving all poor performers a chance to improve
C) assisting "blocked" employees to improve their performance
D) improving the competence of human resource personnel

Question 12

When employees are turned down for the promotions or lateral moves for which they were considered it rarely affects productivity.

Question 13

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)liability is often greater with internal versus external assessment and staffing efforts.

Question 14

Skills inventories are databases of the skills,competencies,and other relevant characteristics of each employee.

Question 15

Multisource assessments involve the employee's supervisor as well as other sources that are familiar with an employee's job performance.

Question 16

Why do some firms prefer to call groups of employees targeted for accelerated development "acceleration pools" rather than "high-potential pools"?

A) Because acceleration implies faster promotions.
B) Because "high potential" pool implies the rest are of low potential.
C) Because "acceleration pool" employees always rise to managerial levels.
D) Because "high potential pools" occur only at technical levels.

Question 17

Career planning is a continuous process of self-assessment and goal setting.

Question 18

Succession management means identifying specific back-up candidates for specific senior management positions.

Question 19

Succession management cannot be used to enhance organizational diversity.

Question 20

A company cannot know what training to offer employees unless it ________.

A) emulates its competitors policies and programs
B) assesses their strengths and weaknesses
C) reaches a minimum of 100 employees
D) stops internal recruiting completely

Question 21

An additional ethical issue involves the ________ of an employee's application for another position in the company.

A) assessment
B) processing
C) confidentiality
D) rejection

Question 22

Which of the following would result in peer ratings being a successful method of internal assessment in a firm?

A) A well developed skills inventory system exists.
B) The level of technological expertise in the firm is high.
C) All supervisors provide timely feedback.
D) Work in the firm is done in teams.

Question 23

Which of the following is a limitation of using supervisors in performance reviews?

A) They may be less able to see the employee's task and interpersonal behaviors.
B) They may be unfamiliar with the employee's job performance.
C) They may be unfamiliar with the employee's job requirements.
D) They may focus on interpersonal behaviors rather than outcomes.

Question 24

Which of the following raters is often the most controversial feature of a multisource assessment?

A) internal customers
B) external customers
C) peers
D) subordinates

Question 25

An organization claiming to provide an environment in which employees can grow their careers has to ________.

A) provide performance feedback and development opportunities
B) emulate its competitor firms and their placement strategies
C) cease internal recruitment and rely on external recruiting alone
D) implement a transparent hiring and firing strategy

Question 26

In the career crossroads model,each passage requires that the person ________.

A) build on old skills
B) change organizations
C) unlearn old skills and learn new skills
D) is promoted based on their mastery of their current job

Question 27

Assigning a new employee to regularly meet with a more senior,more experienced employee to further the career development of both employees is ________.

A) job sharing
B) transferring
C) mentoring
D) training

Question 28

The focus of the career crossroads model is on ________.

A) physical work
B) technical work
C) professional work
D) managerial positions

Question 29

External customers are often best for evaluating an employee's ________.

A) interpersonal behaviors
B) job performance
C) completion of job requirements
D) teamwork skills

Question 30

The value of the nine box matrix depends most heavily on ________.

A) the quality of the assessment methodology
B) the number of people being assessed
C) the length of time it covers
D) the motivation of the employee being rated

Question 31

A nine box matrix requires assessing employees on ________.

A) past job performance and current job performance
B) past job performance and future potential
C) tenure and current job performance
D) current job performance and future potential

Question 32

If a company wanted to quickly identify which employees speak Spanish,what would be the best way to do this?

A) Query the company's replacement charting system
B) Ask all managers to ask their subordinates if any of them speak Spanish
C) Query the company's skills inventory system
D) E-mail all employees and ask Spanish speakers to respond

Question 33

RBC Electronics is a retailer of electronic appliances.If Sandy does not see or understand the work processes and rules that influence RBC employees' task behaviors and has limited knowledge of the regulations,policies,and resources that affect employees' behavior,then Sandy is most likely a(n)________.

A) internal customer
B) subordinate
C) external customer
D) supervisor

Question 34

Which of the following improves the ease of use of skills inventories?

A) O*Net
B) career management
C) databases
D) nine box matrix

Question 35

Prestige Pegasus is a multinational firm that specializes in the manufacturing of hardware for high-end technical products and sells its products mostly through business-to-business interactions.Following a good year with soaring profit-margins,Prestige Pegasus is planning to conduct an internal assessment throughout the organization.In a meeting following the decision to conduct the internal assessment,Douglas McCarthy (the Chief Operations Officer)and Tom Castleback (the Chief Marketing Officer)are the prime contributors on the methods that the organization should use to perform these assessments. Douglas: "We should encourage 360-degree feedback,mostly concentrating on subordinates,as they would be the right people to judge their superiors."
Tom: "We should definitely use 360-degree feedback,mostly from external customers,as they are the ones who matter in the end."
Which of the following,if true,would most weaken the Tom's argument?

A) The salespeople of the company travel extensively and are expected to work independently without supervision.
B) The salespeople of the company do not have any flexibility in the selling price of the product.
C) The company targets a niche market segment with a limited customer base.
D) Previous surveys have revealed that customers are more satisfied with the company's services than the actual products

Question 36

Adam has joined an advertising firm as a junior executive.Due to his lack of experience,he has a lot to learn and has been assigned as a protégé to Mark,a senior executive in the firm,who will help train him and assess his performance.This process of internal assessment is called ________.

A) skills inventorying
B) performance reviewing
C) a mentoring program
D) job knowledge assessing

Question 37

________ rely on trained psychologists to subjectively analyze a candidate's attributes,values,and styles in the context of a particular job.

A) Clinical assessments
B) Mentoring programs
C) Multisource assessments
D) Job knowledge tests

Question 38

Prestige Pegasus is a multinational firm that specializes in the manufacturing of hardware for high-end technical products and sells its products mostly through business-to-business interactions.Following a good year with soaring profit-margins,Prestige Pegasus is planning to conduct an internal assessment throughout the organization.In a meeting following the decision to conduct the internal assessment,Douglas McCarthy (the Chief Operations Officer)and Tom Castleback (the Chief Marketing Officer)are the prime contributors on the methods that the organization should use to perform these assessments. Douglas: "We should encourage 360-degree feedback,mostly concentrating on subordinates,as they would be the right people to judge their superiors."
Tom: "We should definitely use 360-degree feedback,mostly from external customers,as they are the ones who matter in the end."
Which of the following statements,if true,would support Douglas' argument?

A) The company lacks a feedback mechanism that guarantees employee anonymity and protects their interests.
B) The company is focusing on the recruitment for middle-management positions which mostly emphasizes on people management skills.
C) The company is planning to flatten its organizational structure by combining certain top management positions, while removing redundant ones.
D) The company is introducing workforce diversity initiatives in order to comply with certain affirmative action policies.

Question 39

Matthew works as an accountant in a mobile phone company.During lunch he spoke to Peter from the sales department about wanting to buy a mobile phone for himself.Peter persuaded Matthew to buy a mobile phone from the sales department itself,which Matthew did.Matthew is a(n)________.

A) stakeholder
B) internal customer
C) human resource personnel
D) external customer

Question 40

Having administrative assistant job candidates perform a set of exercises including taking phone messages,typing reports,scheduling meetings,and filing is an example of a(n)________.

A) clinical assessment
B) job knowledge test
C) assessment center
D) structured interview

Question 41

Managers' involvement and commitment is critical to the success of the succession management process because ________.

A) their skills assessments are central to the preparation of identified candidates for future positions
B) they will be the future employers of the promoted employees
C) managers need to develop their own replacements by training their subordinates adequately
D) their bonuses are tied to the success of their subordinates

Question 42

How can internal assessment enhance a firm's strategic capabilities?

Question 43

Why should succession management be integrated with career development?

Question 44

What is the nine box matrix and how is it best used?

Question 45

An insurance company assesses all employees' current job skills and creates road maps for them outlining the competencies they need to advance within the company.The company then makes sure they get the training they need,including coaching and mentoring,classroom training.This is an example of ________.

A) making a career development plan
B) succession management
C) restructuring
D) ethical assessment

Question 46

The ongoing process of systematically identifying,assessing and developing organizational leadership to enhance performance is ________.

A) development training
B) replacement planning
C) succession management
D) business planning

Question 47

________ is used to reenergize employees and give them the opportunity to develop skills and pursue other interests via workshops,formal classes,or travel.

A) Job rotation
B) Skills assessment
C) Peer reviews
D) Sabbaticals

Question 48

Plan out what internal assessment methods should be used in a multisource assessment program to determine redefined field sales managers' roles within an organization.Keep in mind that the sales managers work in teams and give reasons for the methods chosen.

Question 49

What is a multisource assessment system and what are the sources typically used? What are the strengths and limitations of each rating source?

Question 50

After choosing the position on which to focus,the first general step in a succession management project is to ________.

A) identify each interested candidate's strengths, weaknesses, and succession readiness
B) check that the job description outlines the current and future competencies, a person needs to perform at a high level in the key position
C) create a plan to continually and systematically improve the capabilities of all identified succession candidates
D) write a person specification linked to the firm's business strategy