Reference no: EM13393261

In companies where intellectual capital is crucial to good strategy execution, which of the following is generally not among the practices that companies use to c?

A Providing promising employees with challenging, interesting, and skill-stretching assignments and also rotating them through jobs that not only have great content but also span functional and geographic boundaries

B Expecting employees to take full responsibility for staying up to date, thereby minimizing the need to train or retrain employees

C Coaching average performers to improve their skills and capabilities, while weeding out underperformers and benchwarmers

D Encouraging employees to challenge existing ways of doing things, to be creative and innovative in proposing better ways of operating, and to push their ideas for new products or businesses

E Fostering a stimulating and engaging work environment such that employees will consider the company a great place to work

A Has integrated backward and forward as far as it can

B Is faced with diminishing market opportunities and stagnating sales in its principal business

C Has achieved industry leadership in its main line of business

D Encounters declining profits in its mainstay business

E Faces strong competition and is struggling to earn a good profit