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employee development
combination of formal education, job experiences, relationships, and assessment of
personality and abilities to help employees prepare for the future of their careers
protean career
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 (MBTI)
psychological test that identifies individuals' preferences for source of energy, means of
information gathering, way of decision making, and lifestyle, providing information for
team building and leadership development
assessment center
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
, assessment center exercise in which a team of five to seven employees is assigned a
problem and must work together to solve it within a certain time period
benchmarks
measurement tool that gathers ratings of a manager's use of skills associated with
success in managing
job experiences
combination of relationships, problems, demands, tasks, and other features of an
employee's jobs
transfer
assignment of an employee to a position in a different area of the company, usually in a
lateral move
downward move
assignment of an employee to a position with less responsibility and authority
promotion
assignment of an employee to a position with greater challenges, more responsibility,
and more authority than in the previous job, usually accompanies by a pay increase
externship
employee development through a full-time temporary position at another organization
sabbatical
leave of absence from an organization to renew or develop skills
mentor
experienced, productive senior employee who helps develop a less-experienced
employee (a protégé)