MGMT 415: Chapter 9. Exam review questions and answers, graded A+

MGMT 415: Chapter 9. Exam review questions and answers, graded A+ employee development - -the combination of a formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers. protean career - -a career that frequently changes based on changes in the person's interests, abilities, and values and in the work environment. assessment - -Collecting information and providing feedback to employees about their behavior, communication style, or skills. myers briggs type indicator - -Psychological test that identifies individuals preferences for source of energy, means of information gathering, way of decision-making, and lifestyle, providing information for teambuilding and leadership development. assessment center - -An assessment process in which multiple raters or evaluators (assessors) evaluate employees performance on a number of exercises, usually as they work in a group at an off-site location. leaderless group discussion - -An assessment center exercise in which a team of 5 to 7 employees is assigned a problem and must work together to solve it within a certain time. Benchmarks - -a measurement tool that gathers ratings of the managers use of skills associated with success in managing. Job experience - -The combination of relationships, problems, demands, tasks, and other features of and employee's jobs. Job enlargement - -Adding challenges or new responsibility to an employee's current job. Job rotation - -Moving an employee through a series of job assignments in one or more functional areas. Transfer - -Assignment of an employee to a position in a different area of the company, usually in a lateral moves. Downward move - -Assignment of an employee to a position with less responsibility and authority. Engineers who want to move into management often take lower-level positions such as shift supervisor to develop their management skills. Promotion - -Assignment of an employee to a position with greater challenges, more responsibility, and more authority than in the previous job, usually accompanied by a increase.