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Training and Development Section 1 (Answer questions ONLY)
1. Identify and briefly describe two skills needed for effective coaching.
2. Identify one potential benefit and one potential shortcoming of mentoring programs in organizations.
3. Compare and contrast management education, management training, and on-the-job managerial experiences. How can these be combined to create a strategic management development program?
4. Assume that you work for a large manufacturing organization and that you have been asked to join a new task force charged with shifting the organization toward greater use of self-managed work teams. Currently, the organization has a fairly typical organizational structure, with a sizable number of supervisors, managers, middle managers, etc., arranged in a hierarchy. How would you recommend that the organization go about making such a major change? Identify at least two problems that you would anticipate in this change, and state how you would seek to avoid them.
5. How can an organization's orientation and career development efforts be used to promote cultural diversity within the organization?
6. Briefly describe the significance of understanding adult development (as described by Levinson and Erickson) to successful career development. Be specific.
Section 2
1. According to your text, how is "affirmative action" different from "managing diversity?"
2. Why are culturally diverse groups often very effective work teams?
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