EXAM 2026 EXAM Q&A STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS
◉ Socialization. Answer: A long-term process of planned and
unplanned, formal and informal activities and experiences through
which an individual acquires the attitudes, behaviors, and
knowledge needed to successfully participate as an organizational
member.
◉ Orientation. Answer: Training activities to help new hires fit in as
organizational members.
◉ Motivation to transfer. Answer: Intention and willingness to
transfer any knowledge acquired in a training or development
activity back to the work context.
◉ Training. Answer: Formal and informal activities to improve
competencies relevant to an employee's or workgroup's current job.
◉ Development. Answer: Focuses on developing competencies that
an employee or workgroup is expected to need in the future.
,◉ Learning Objectives. Answer: Identify desired learning outcomes.
◉ Person needs analysis. Answer: Evaluates how individual
employees are doing in the training area and determines who needs
what type of training.
◉ Self-management Strategies. Answer: Efforts to control one's
motivation, emotions, and decision making to enhance the
application of learned capabilities to the job.
◉ Individual Socialization. Answer: Newcomers are socialized
individually as in an apprenticeship.
◉ Training Transfer. Answer: Effectively using what is learned in
training back on the job.
◉ Random Socialization. Answer: Socialization steps are ambiguous
or changing.
◉ Contest Socialization. Answer: Each socialization stage is a
"contest" in which one builds up a performance record.
, ◉ Organizational Needs Analysis. Answer: Identifies where in the
organization development or improvement opportunities exist.
◉ Lifelong Learning. Answer: A formal commitment to ensuring that
employees have and develop the skills they need to be effective in
their jobs today and in the future.
◉ Open Skills. Answer: Set of principles that can be applied in many
different ways.
◉ Learning agility. Answer: The ability to learn form experiences
and to apply that knowledge to new and different situations.
◉ Variable Socialization. Answer: Employees do not know when to
expect to pass to a different status level, and the timeline may be
different across employees.
◉ Investiture Socialization. Answer: Builds newcomers' self-
confidence and reflects senior employees' valuing of newcomer's
knowledge and personal characteristics.
◉ Formal Socialization. Answer: Structured socialization using
specifically designed activities and materials away from the work
setting.