1. Which of the following is considered an indirect financial? payment?
A.Incentives
B.Paid vacation
C.Commissions
D.Wages
E.Bonuses
2. Which of the following is considered an indirect financial? payment?
A.Incentives
B.Paid vacation
C.Commissions
D.Wages
E.Bonuses
3. Which of the following is based on the premise that people try to maintain a balance between what they perceive as their contribution and? reward?
A.Individual equity
B.Procedural equity
C.External equity
D.Equity theory of motivation
E.Internal equity
4. Which of the following acts contains requirements for minimum? wage, equal? pay, and child labor? provisions?
A.?Davis-Bacon
B.?Walsh-Healey
C.Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
D.Equal Pay
E.Fair Labor Standards
5. Which of the following acts says that employees of one sex cannot be paid at a lower rate than employees of the opposite sex if they are doing similar? work?
A.Americans with Disabilities
B.Fair Labor Standards
C.Equal Pay
D.?Walsh-Healy
E.?Davis-Bacon
6. When an employee is on a? short-term overseas? assignment, the? _______ salary plan would eliminate the need to make frequent changes in the? employee's base salary.
A.?hardship-allowance
B.productivity
C.?home-based
D.?cost-of-living adjustment
E.?host-based
7. A? _______ is a systematic comparison of jobs to determine the worth of the job.
A.job analysis
B.job evaluation
C.job classification
D.?market-competitive pay plan
E.compensable factors study
8. Which of the following identifies important aspects of a job to establish how jobs compare in terms of? worth?
A.Importance of the job
B.Salary surveys
C.?Market-competitive pay plans
D.Compensable factors
E.Benchmark factors
9. Which of the following will serve as the anchor against which all other jobs will be? compared?
A.Compensable factors
B.Job ranks
C.Competitiveness
D.Benchmark jobs
E.Worth of each job
10. What is the first step to using ranking as a job evaluation? method?
A.Rate skills and combine the ratings.
B.Conduct a job analysis.
C.Determine compensable factors.
D.Identify job specification.
E.Identify job clusters.
11. Which job evaluation method groups jobs as having the approximate same value for pay? purposes?
A.Job classification
B.Grade definition
C.Benchmarks
D.Ranking
E.Point method
12. What is the first step in developing a? market-competitive pay plan using the? point-factor method?
A.Review job descriptions and specifications.
B.Assign points to key job factors.
C.Choose benchmark jobs.
D.Evaluate the jobs.
E.Select compensable factors.
13. How should the importance of each job factor be determined when using the point method of developing a? market-competitive pay? plan?
A.Develop pay grades
B.Define each? factor's degrees.
C.Use salary surveys.
D.Use wage curves.
E.Assign weights to compensable factors.
14. After determining the benchmark jobs in an? organization, _______ can help a company? price, or place value? on, those jobs.
A.pay grades
B.wage curves
C.salary surveys
D.ranking
E.rate ranges
15. Which of the following should be used to determine if a? firm's wages are too high or too low relative to what other firms are? paying?
A.Market wage rates
B.External wage curves
C.Pay grades
D.Internal wage curves
E.Salary surveys
16. Which of the following is an advantage to using pay ranges for each pay? grade?
A.It is easier to identify exempt and nonexempt employees.
B.It becomes easier to address pay for? non-benchmark jobs.
C.They allow employers to be more flexible when attracting experienced candidates.
D.They allow for less negotiation for new hires.
E.They allow employers to determine the exact worth of new hires.
17. Which of the following groups is usually compensated using a? market-pricing approach?
A.?Entry-level personnel
B.Assembly line workers
C.Professional employees
D.Company executives
E.?Non-managerial roles