HR MGT Final Exam Terms
Which of the following is a similarity between a behavior observation scale (BOS) and a behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS)?
Both are based on critical incidents.
_____ simply collapses many traditional salary grades into a few wide salary groups.
Broadbanding
Which of the following is true of pay rate compression?
It means that differences between low- and high-paying jobs decrease
Which of the following job evaluation systems uses knowledge, mental activity, and accountability to evaluate executives and managerial positions?
The Hay profile method
Which of the following is an internal factor that influences pay rates?
The worth of a job
Which of the following is an advantage of the trait methods of performance evaluation?
They are inexpensive to develop
A concern of using 360-degree evaluation is that:
raters must undergo some training before using this system.
In which of the following job evaluation systems are jobs sorted and grouped according to a series of predetermined grades?
the job classification system
The _____ contains provisions for minimum wage rates, overtime payments, and child labor.
Fair Labor Standards Act
Which of the following is an example of direct compensation?
Incentives
Which of the following is an advantage of the job ranking system of job evaluation?
Its simplicity makes it ideal for use by small businesses.
_____ is the systematic process of determining the relative worth of jobs to establish which jobs should be paid more than the others within an organization.
Job evaluation
____ are defined as groups of jobs within a particular class that are paid the same rate.
Pay grades
____ are payment rates above the maximum of the pay range.
Red circle rates
Which of the following is a disadvantage of the results methods of performance evaluation?
They are time consuming to develop and use.
Calibration
_____ is a process whereby managers meet to discuss the performance of individual employees to ensure their employee reviews are in line with one another.
The three factors that influence an employee's performance are:
ability, motivation, and environment.
When identifying the sources of ineffective performance, managers often:
attribute poor performance to a lack of ability of individual performers.
During the performance evaluation of his sales staff, a manager decided to focus only on sales revenue and ignored other important but less quantifiable performance dimensions, such as customer service. This is an example of _____.
criterion deficiency
Clauses in labor agreements that provide for quarterly cost-of-living adjustments in wages based on changes in the consumer price index are called _____.
escalator clauses
A developmental purpose of a performance review is:
identifying an employee's strengths and weaknesses.
The expectancy theory of motivation claims that elements of an employee's compensation package are said to have _____ when the employee's high performance leads to monetary rewards that are valued
instrumentality
The management by objectives (MBO) approach of performance review:
rates the performance of employees based on their achievement of goals that were mutually set by the employees and their managers.
A performance rating error in which the evaluation of an employee is based largely on the employee's most recent behavior rather than on behavior throughout the evaluation period is referred to as a _____.
recency error
Employees are classified as exempt or nonexempt under:
the Fair Labor Standards Act.
In the essay method of performance review, ____
the rater writes a description of an employee's performance and make recommendations for his or her development
Performance review methods can be broadly classified into three categories. These are:
trait methods, behavioral methods, and results methods.
An administrative purpose of a performance review is:
validating selection criteria.
The relationship between the relative worth of jobs and their pay rates can be represented by means of a _____.
wage curve