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Career Planning And Talent Management
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Learner centered; informal; impersonal
Non-traditional job movements
Low-Power Distance
Vocational testing
Personal Inventory Instrument
2. An individuals approach to learning; way they feel - behave - info they posess.
Workforce Plan
Learning Style
Key tenets in an organization's support of management development programs
Succession Planning
3. Contract - temp - job sharing - OT - outsourcing
Competancy Assessment
Roe's Theory of Occupation
KSA
Non-traditional job movements
4. More traditional; teacher focused; Japanese culture; formal
Personality / Topology Theories
Implications for multiple languages?
High-Power Distance
Job Descriptions
5. Divid job into required competencies or skills: mgrial/admin - supervisory - functional
What are some benefits of job-rotations?
What is meant by 'power distance'?
Leadership Assessment
Competancy Assessment
6. Modeling - awareness programs - training - desensitization
High-Power Distance
Career development models (3)
Differences between GenX and Bboomers.
An organization include more diverse people through implementing programs such as...
7. All tools of succession planning. ; Assessments; Training; Mentoring/coaching; Job-rotation; OJT
Types of Leadership Programs
Andragogy
ADA
Learning Style
8. 'Adult Learning';Malcolm Knowles - how people learn: self-concept - prior experience - readiness to learn - orientation to learning - motiviation to learn.
Job rotation
Andragogy
ADA
Learning Style
9. The collective knowledge - skills - competencies and value in an organization.
What is meant by 'life long learning'?
4 Types of Job Analysis
Human Capital
Assessment Center
10. Taks Analysis - job->tasks->steps;Performance Gap Analysis- past - present - future;Content Analysis - subject matter;Competency assessment - by skillset
How does workforce planning differ from strategic planning?
4 Types of Job Analysis
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
Cost-Benefit Analysis
11. Individual Development Plans; Plans for improvement on the current job or job advancement; usually integrated with a performance appraisal.
What is 'proximecs'?
IDPs
Learning Style
List types of assessment tools.
12. Climb-the-ladder (traditional); spiral - consultants - transfers kills from one industry to another; attend workshops.
Human Capital
Career development models (3)
What are types of succession planning approaches?
Succession Planning
13. Intimate - < 18'; Personal - 18' to 4'; Social - 4' to 12'; Public - 12' +
Informational Interview
What are the U.S. space distances?
Personal assessment and the market?
Leadership Assessment
14. Workforce planning built based on strategic plan.
Trait and Factor Counceling
How does workforce planning differ from strategic planning?
Job Analysis
Succession Planning
15. 1. Analysis; 2. Synthesis; 3 Diagnose; 4. Pronosis; 5. Councel; 6. Follow up
16. Activiites that ensure an organization can meet its goals; the right people in the right place at the right time.
Workfocre Planning
WIIFM
According to Malcolm Knowles - how do people learn?
What is meant by 'power distance'?
17. Hire - fire - promote - demote - lateral move
Traditional job movements
Career development theories (4)
Human Resource Audit
Organziational Analysis
18. Formal; Cross-functional - temp assignment in different department; Cross-country - temp assignment in another country
Personality Test
Analysis performed BEFORE Job Analysis (4)
Job rotation
What are the U.S. space distances?
19. Adults need to be involved in planning their instruction;Experience provides basis for learning;Must have immediate relevance to their jobs;Problem centered
DiSC Personality Profile
Personality / Topology Theories
According to Malcolm Knowles - how do people learn?
What is the importance of Managerial Leadership and Development?
20. Provides accurate picture of a person's personality.
Personal Inventory Instrument
Job Functions
List types of assessment tools.
SWOT
21. More experienced person provides constructive advice and feedback; goal to improve performance.
What are the U.S. space distances?
SWOT
Coaching
Career development models (3)
22. 360-feedback; development plans; simulations
What is a competancy assessment?
List types of assessment tools.
Gizberg's Theories
Learning Style
23. Explain the how and what of career choice; Roe - Holland - psychodynamic
Personal assessment and the market?
Personality / Topology Theories
ADA
Fairness
24. Involves SWOT analysis; allows org to identify aspirations and future challenges. 1. Identify values; 2. create mission statement; 3. Environment Analysis; 4. Identify goals and objectives; 5. Action steps; 6. Reality test the plan; 7. Feedback
Career counceling
Strategic Planning
Job Analysis
What are some benefits of job-rotations?
25. I - reaction of student; II - increased learning/knowledge; III - behavior improvement; IV - effect on business based on trainee performance
26. MBTI; consists of categories that identify 16 types of personalities. Used in career development. No measure of maturity - intellegence or mental health.
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
Learning Style
Reliability
Super Development Framework
27. Done by a professional; several times in a career; broad occupational interests
Gizberg's Theories
Implications for multiple languages?
Krumboltz's Model
Career counceling
28. Determine future of organization in terms of career development; realistic vision; link present and future possibilities.
Career Profile
Personal assessment and the market?
According to Malcolm Knowles - how do people learn?
Personality / Topology Theories
29. Major responsibilities of a deparment with specific outcomes to customers (internal & external)
Job Functions
Personal Inventory Instrument
Krumboltz's Model
How could you collect data for Job Analysis?
30. Revolve around KSAs; organization identifies competancies required; part of succession planning; tests - interviews - etc..
Strategic Planning
What is a competancy assessment?
Job Descriptions
Job rotation
31. Schein - concept where career decisions based on talents - motives and values; your 'anchors' or comfort zone.
How could you collect data for Job Analysis?
Validity
Trait and Factor Counceling
Career Anchors Theory
32. Professional guidance used to make good career decisions.
What is the importance of Managerial Leadership and Development?
How does workforce planning differ from strategic planning?
Environmental Analysis
Career Advising
33. Testing based on one's core values; allign to career choice
Fairness
An organization include more diverse people through implementing programs such as...
High-Power Distance
Values driven testing
34. By National Career Development Association; ethical standards for a professional; Career dev theory; Counseling skills; assessments; information / resources; management of program; Diversity; Supervision; Ethical and legal; Evaluation; Technology
Coaching
Career counceling competancies
Workfocre Planning
Analysis performed BEFORE Job Analysis (4)
35. Identifies all skill and knowledge gaps and skills and required knowledge to meet future workforce needs.
Personal assessment and the market?
According to Malcolm Knowles - how do people learn?
Organziational Analysis
Workforce Plan
36. Knowledge - Skills - Attitude (or Ability); Bloom's taxonomy
Implications for multiple languages?
Human Capital
KSA
Gizberg's Theories
37. Identifies past - present and future performance gaps.
Performance Gap Analysis
Holland's Occupational Congruency Model
Multiple modalities
IDPs
38. Super; Ginzberg - starting at 18....; Trait-and-factor; Personality / topology (Roe - Holland)
Career development theories (4)
Trait and Factor Counceling
Human Resource Audit
Competancy Assessment
39. Ability to repeat the same measurement the same way over time.
Analysis performed BEFORE Job Analysis (4)
Differences between GenX and Bboomers.
Reliability
Trait and Factor Counceling
40. DECIDES - a rational decision making process with 7 steps: Define - Establish an plan - Clarify values - Identify Alteratives - Discover potential outcomes - Eliminate alternatives - Start action
41. Analyze organization - values and culture of organization; Cost benefit analysis - is the effort worth the cost?; Audience analysis - who is the target?; Environmental analysis - SWOT
WIIFM
Analysis performed BEFORE Job Analysis (4)
What is 'proximecs'?
How does workforce planning differ from strategic planning?
42. Accents; Gross translation errors; Nuance - no similar command of the same language
Trait and Factor Counceling
What are the U.S. space distances?
Succession Planning
Implications for multiple languages?
43. Career development practice - more experienced person shares wisdom/experience to a protege. Three types: one-on-one - group - virtual
Succession Planning
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Mentoring
Vocational testing
44. Gen X - technology savy - self-reliant - global - 2 income families; Baby Boomers - stable in career - balanced life - distrustful of govt / authority
Super Development Framework
Differences between GenX and Bboomers.
Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
What is a company's 'culture'?
45. Affect success of the organization; improve the bottom line.
Kirkpatric's 4 Levels of Evaluation
Job Descriptions
Career counceling competancies
What is the importance of Managerial Leadership and Development?
46. Less accurate way picturing a person's personalitiy; found on internet sites.
Informational Interview
Job Analysis
Personality Test
KSA
47. Williamson; approach to career decision making.; Trait - can be measured; intellegence; Factor - characteristic required to be successful; a score
Audience Analysis
Competancy Assessment
Organziational Analysis
Trait and Factor Counceling
48. Analysis that is conducted to understand target population - demographics; all prior to job analslys - training or other interventions.
How does workforce planning differ from strategic planning?
What is 'proximecs'?
Audience Analysis
What are types of succession planning approaches?
49. Type of ROI - used to prove an intervention generated financial benefit.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Fairness
Competancy Assessment
Reliability
50. Concept to be used in instructional methods; motivate user by having them see the benefit they will derive.
IDPs
Human Resource Audit
Williamson's 6 Steps in Career Counceling
WIIFM