Chapter 9: Career and Management Development

Question 1

Career

Answer 1

series of work-related positions, paid or unpaid, that are specific to an individual and helps them grow in job skills, success, and fulfillment

Question 2

Career Development

Answer 2

lifelong series of activities that contribute to a person’s career exploration, establishment, success, and fulfillment

Question 3

Career Planning

Answer 3

process through which someone becomes aware of personal characteristics, acquires information about opportunities, identifies career-related goals, and establishes action plans to attain specific goals

Question 4

People Who Pursue Work Because They Feel it is Their Calling Follow 3 Distinct Paths

Answer 4

1. identity-Oriented Path
2. Contribution-Oriented Path
3. Practice-Oriented Path

Question 5

Identity Oriented Path

Answer 5

employees feel that their work is a big part of their identity and express themselves through their work

Question 6

Contribution Oriented path

Answer 6

employees are interested in maximizing their contribution to social causes

Question 7

Practice-Oriented Path

Answer 7

employees are engaged in learning and mastering their work but not intensely emotional about it

Question 8

Networking

Answer 8

an organized process whereby the individual arranges and conducts a series of formal and informal meetings with their colleagues and contacts

Question 9

Boundaryless Career

Answer 9

careers in which individual workers take responsibility for their own career management, changing employers and/or work units within employers, reject conventional linear career opportunities

Question 10

Gig Workers

Answer 10

similar to boundaryless career but self-employed

Question 11

Portfolio Career

Answer 11

career based on using ones skills to create a livelihood from multiple income sources

Question 12

Management Development

Answer 12

any attempt to improve current or future managerial performance by imparting knowledge, changing attitudes, or increasing skills

Question 13

Developmental Job Rotation

Answer 13

moving management trainees from department to department to broaden their understanding of all parts of the business

Question 14

Mentoring

Answer 14

use of an experienced individual to teach and train someone with less knowledge in a given area

Question 15

Coaching Approach

Answer 15

trainee works directly with the person that they are to replace

Question 16

Executive Coach

Answer 16

an outside consultant questions the executives boss, peers, subordinates to identify the executives strengths and weaknesses and then counsel the executive so they can capitalize on those strengths and overcome weaknesses