Mid-Term Assignment

STUDENT ID NUMBER

DEPARTMENT Human Resource Management

COURSE NAME Career Planning

COURSE CODE HRME 312 Sections

INSTRUCTOR Dr. Brihan Fatin

Type Semester or Session Year
EXAM DETAILS
Mid-Term Spring 2020

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Explain the career planning process and its stages.

2. Discuss the model of career development and its applications.

3. Illustrate the contemporary issues in career management

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Section 1 2 3 TOTAL
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CLOs 1 2 3
Value 5 5 5 15 30
Result

Date: /4/2020 Signature

 Case Study

Michele Terry the aspiring Banking Executive

Michele Terry is a 45 -year -old manager of marketing services at Federal Bank

(fictitious name), a medium -sized financial institution. the fact that some of the
staff she once hired have been promoted above her in recent years is a daily
reminder that Michele’s longtime ambition to become an executive vice
president at Federal Bank is not likely to be fulfilled. Her recent performance
appraisal meetings with her 40-year-old superior , an assistant vice president ,
left no doubt in Michele’s mind about Federal’s plans :She will most likely
retire at her current level.
In fact, the handwriting had been on the wall for more than five years.
During this time , Michele re-examined her original goal. how important was it
for her to become an executive vice president with the bank? Her conclusion
was that it was still a personally important goal. As a result, Michele had at least
15 interviews during the past five years with other banks. In each case, she got a
polite but negative response. All the institutions were hiring MBAs, and
Michele had only a bachelor’s degree. More important, Michele was competent
enough but did not have sufficiently varied experiences in the financial services
industry and didn’t seem to project the image of an officer, she also spoke with
officers of other institutions in the financial services industry. The reactions to
theses inquiries were all similarly negative.

Last year , several conversation with Federal’s officers and her husband
convinced Michele to give up her dream of becoming an executive vice
president at the bank. It was simply out of question. Although there was a
chance of further advancement ,Michele concluded that it was slim.in the
meantime , Michele reexamined she always wanted to become a senior officer
at the bank , in addition to money and status , she wanted the opportunity to
affect broad policies to make inroads in the services that banks could provide to
the community .therefore, she concentrated on broadening the scope of her
current position by looking for ways to influence the bank’s approach to
community reinvestment and convinced her boss that she should chair a task
force on new market development. She also began to serve as a mentor to
several of Federal’s younger managers, helping them get their careers
established and perhaps avoid some of the mistakes she may have made earlier
in her career.

On the home front, Michele seems more relaxed than she has been in quite
some time, and she is better able to enjoy her family .she has encouraged her
husband to switch to a more personally satisfying career field , has freely given
him advice and support , and seems to enjoy the success her husband is
beginning to experience in his rejuvenated career. Michele is also spending
more time with her children and her infant grandchild and has rekindled her
interest in the local political scene.

Michele’s most recent performance appraisal was outstanding. Although she

doesn’t put in nearly so many weekends and evening as she had in the past, her
job performance has not suffered. On the contrary, her marketing group is
working on several innovative projects, the task force she heads is making real
progress, and she is deriving great pleasure from her relationships with several
of the bank’s younger managers. Although Michele is periodically frustrated
over her lack of advancement , she is a respected contributor at the bank and
,little by little, is coming to terms with her disappointment .

Case Questions:

Section 1 (5 Marks) [CLO 1]

Identify the specific career exploration activities that Michele undertook to

gather information about herself (her values , needs, abilities, interests, and
desired lifestyle)and her environment (different jobs, employers ,industries,
their families)?What could she have done to acquire more information? Does
Michele currently have conceptual and operational career goals? if so, what
are they? if not, explain why you believe that Michele does not currently
have career goals.

Section 2 (5 Marks) [CLO 2]

What specific career strategies did Michele implement? Were they effective?
why or why not? To what extent has Michele received useful feedback
regarding her career? should Federal Bank have been more proactive in
helping Michele to manage her career? What could the Bank have done to
help her?
Section 3 (5 Marks) [CLO 3]

If you were advising Michele, what recommendations would you give her to
help her effectively manage her career going forward?