Chapter 9 Flashcards
(19 cards)
What is Career Planning?
A deliberate process where an individual becomes aware of personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations, and establishes action plans to attain career goals.
What is Career Development?
A lifelong series of activities that contribute to a person’s career exploration, establishment, success, and fulfillment.
What are the six basic personal orientations in Career Planning and Development?
Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional.
What are Career Anchors?
Aspects of a job that appeal to an individual, such as Technical/Functional, Managerial Competence, Creativity, Autonomy, Security, Service/Dedication, Pure Challenge, Lifestyle.
What are the four MBTI preference scales?
Energy (Extraversion or Introversion), Information (Sensing or Intuition), Decisions (Thinking or Feeling), Seeing the world (Judgment or Perception).
What are the new approaches to Career Development?
Identifying skills and aptitudes, focusing on life trajectories, shifting from traits/states to context, from prescriptive to process, from linear to non-linear, from facts to narratives, and from describing to modeling.
What is the role of the individual in Career Development?
Accept responsibility for their career through self-motivation, independent learning, time and money management, self-promotion, and networking.
What is the role of the manager in Career Development?
Provide timely and objective performance feedback, offer developmental assignments, participate in career discussions, and act as a coach and advisor.
What is the role of the employer in Career Development?
Provide training and development opportunities, offer career information and programs, support learning organizations, and offer career options.
What are key considerations in managing employee transfers?
Employees seek advancement, enrichment, more interesting jobs, and convenience, while employers aim to fill vacancies and find better job fit.
What are the trends in managing employee transfers?
Routine transfers are declining due to cost and family disruption; two-thirds of transfers are refused due to family concerns; employers offer spousal/partner support.
What are the key promotion decision criteria?
1) Seniority vs. Competence, 2) Competence measurement, 3) Formal vs. Informal process, 4) Vertical, horizontal, or other promotions.
What is Management Development?
An attempt to improve management performance by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes, or increasing skills.
Why is Management Development important?
Baby Boomers retiring, increased demand for next-generation managers, attracting talent, and achieving employer-of-choice status.
What are the steps in the Management Development Process?
Assessing HR needs, creating a talent pool, developing managers, succession planning.
What is Succession Planning?
A process to plan and fill senior-level and strategic job openings, developing capacity for future leadership.
What are the steps in Succession Planning?
1) Establish strategic direction, 2) Identify core skills needed, 3) Identify employees who can develop these skills and provide opportunities.
What are some Management Development techniques?
College/university programs, in-house development centers, behavior modeling, mentoring.
Why is Leadership Development important?
Canada faces a shortage of leadership talent, requiring self-mastery, vision, thinking, action design, leading, and adaptive learning.
