Exam 2 - Chapter 9 Flashcards
What are the steps in individual career planning?
- Self Assessment
- Reality Check
- Goal Settings
- Action Plan
Self Assessment
Shows Strength & Weakness
Reality Check
What resources are available
Goal Setting
Specific goals not general goals
Action Plans
Time table on what you can do and not do
Development Activities
- Formal education
- Assessment
- Job Experiences
- Relationships
Assessment Center
A process by which individuals are evaluated as they participate in a series of situations that resemble what they might be called upon to handle on the job
What are the benefits of having a mentor
- pass on the experience
- networking
- learning & guidance
save time getting information
What are the cost of having a mentor
- learning the wrong way
- learning bad habits
- too dependent on the mentor
- protege failure may harm the mentor
Glass ceiling effects
artificial barriers based on attitudinal or organizational bias that prevent qualified women or minorities from advancing upward in their organizations into management level positions
How to break the glass ceiling
- Consistently exceed performance expectations
- Seek out difficultor challenging assignments
- Develop a style with which males managers are comfortable with
- Having influential mentors
In basket training
A process for evaluating trainess by simulating a real-life work situation
