Chapter 9 - Talent, Careers, and Development

Question 1

Define “Strategic Talent Management”.

Answer 1

-The process of identifying the most important jobs in a company that provide a long-term competitive advantage and then creating appropriate HR policies to develop employees so that they can effectively work in these jobs.
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Question 2

Define “Integrated Talent Management”.

Answer 2

-A holistic approach to leveraging and building human capital.
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Question 3

Define “Make-or-Buy”.

Answer 3

-Develop competitive human resources or hire individuals who are already developed from somewhere else.
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Question 4

Define “HiPos”.

Answer 4

-Individuals who show high promise for advancement in the organization.
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Question 5

Define “Succession Planning”.

Answer 5

-Preparing for inevitable vacancies in the organization hierarchy.
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Question 6

Define “Nine-Box Talent Grid”.

Answer 6

-A matrix showing past performance and future potential of all employees.
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Question 7

Define “Career”.

Answer 7

-Series of work-related positions a person occupies throughout his or her life.
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Question 8

Define “Protean Career”.

Answer 8

-A process whereby an individual makes conscious career plans to achieve self-fulfillment.
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Question 9

Define “Organization-Centered Career Planning”.

Answer 9

-Career planning that focuses on identifying career paths that provide the logical progression of people between jobs in an organization.
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Question 10

Define “Career Paths”.

Answer 10

-Represent employees’ movements through opportunities over time.
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Question 11

Define “Individual-Centered Career Planning”.

Answer 11

-Career planning that focuses on an individual’s responsibility for a career rather than on organizational involvement in the process or consideration of a company’s needs.
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Question 12

Define “Dual-Career Ladder”.

Answer 12

-System that allows a person to advance through either a management or a technical/professional ladder.
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Question 13

Define “Glass Ceiling”.

Answer 13

-Situation in which women fail to progress into top and senior management positions.
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Question 14

Define “Development”.

Answer 14

-Efforts to improve employees’ abilities to handle a variety of assignments and to cultivate their capabilities beyond those required by the current job.
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Question 15

Define “Assessment Centers”.

Answer 15

-Collections of test instruments and exercises designed to diagnose an individual’s development needs.
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Question 16

Define “Coaching”.

Answer 16

-A collaborative process focused on improving individual performance.
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Question 17

Define “Job Rotation”.

Answer 17

-Process of moving a person from job to job.

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Question 18

Define “Sabbatical”.

Answer 18

-Time off the job to develop and rejuvenate.

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Question 19

Define “Modeling”.

Answer 19

-Copying someone else’s behavior.

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Question 20

Define “Management Mentoring”.

Answer 20

-A relationship in which experienced managers aid individuals in the earlier stages of their careers.
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