MGT 461 - Exam 1

Among employers that provide health insurance, the cost to provide family coverage per year employee is approximately.

$16,000

Recent surveys show that, on average, an outstanding performer receives a ____ merit increase, an average performer a ____ merit increase, and a poor performer is 0.4% merit increase.

4.4%; 2.8%

Nina is a high-performing individual who works best alone. Which of the following companies is the most appropriate for her?

A company that uses a hierarchical pay structures to pay its employees based on performance.

Based on the opinions of 10,000 U.S. works, Hudson found that when given their choice of unconventional benefits, most employees would select ____.

A more flexible work schedule

Which of the following tests of competitive advantage is probably the easiest test to pass?

Alignment test

Inclusion of essential elements in job descriptions for jobs covered by the legislation is required by the ______.

Americans with Disabilities Act

When cooperation is important for successful organizational performance, which of the following pay structures is most suitable?

An egalitarian pay structure

Most job structures are best described as _____.

Both person - and job-based structures

Jacob works at PrimeClean Corp., a carwash company. He is asked to follow a set of instructions in a predetermined order to wash a car. All the details including the amount of washing liquid to use for each type of car are clearly specified. In case, Jacob's company is most likely to use a :

Closely tailed pay structure

A measure of how changes in one variable are related to changes in another variable is the:

Correlation coefficient

A compensation system that focuses on competitor's labor costs is most closely associated with a(n) _____ strategy.

Cost-cutter

Which of the following is NOT a test of whether a pay strategy is a source of competitive advantage?

Cost-effectiveness test

A difference between incentives and merit increases is that incentives:

Do not increase the base wage, whereas merit increases base wage.

Incentives and merit guidelines are techniques of the _____ policy of the pay model.

Employee contributions

Which of the following policy decisions directly affects employees' attitudes and work behaviors?

Employee contributions

Which of the following is an example of a relational return?

Employment security

Which of the following is NOT a factor in defining equal work according to the Equal Pay Act?

Equal Experience

Comparisons on the forms of compensation used by other companies are part of ____.

External competitiveness

Compensation policy choices that affect the pay level relative to other companies are most closely associated with the ____ aspect of the pay model.

External competitiveness

According to the text, which of the following decisions should be make jointly?

External competitiveness and employee contribution decisions

Which of the following statements regarding reliability of job analysis is NOT true?

Gender and race analysts affect reliability

Hourly compensation costs for production works in manufacturing are higher in _____ than in the United States.

Germany

The alignment test

Helps ensure passing the differentiation test

Career growth, hierarchy, and flexible design are most closely associated with the ____ aspect of mapping a total compensation strategy.

Internal alignment

Whole Foods' shared-fate philosophy of limiting executive salaries to no more than 19 times the average pay of full-time employees is an example of which strategic pay decision?

Internal alignment

Which of the following statements about reliability of job analysis is true?

Is it necessary condition for validity

Which of the following is an ordering of jobs based on their content or relative value?

Job structure

Which of the following is NOT true?

Large raises with a promotion decreases effort and increases absenteeism

Organizations in a turbulent and unpredictable environment requiring flexibility in jobs and work processes are likely to be more successful with a _____ internal pay structure.

Loosely coupled

Which of the following companies is taking efforts to improve the work/life balance of its employees?

MH Corp. increases the number of paid holidays given to its senior employees

One of the reasons why 8 in 10 of the uninsured in the United States are from working families is that ____.

Many small employers are much less likely than larger employers to offer health insurance to their employees

Mike, a job analyst, is in the process of conducting a job analysis. He is given an initial tour of the work site by George, a first-level supervisor, and by Haley, a new recruit. According to the conventional job analysis procedures developed by the U.S. federal government, which of the following steps should Mike perform next?

Mike should conduct an interview with George to get an overview of the job.

You are an HR manager, and your boss has told you to find the best way to raise job performance. After some research, you find that _____ have that greatest instrumental value.

Monetary incentives

_____ are related to greater performance when the workflow depends on individual contributors.

More hierarchical structures

According to the Hudson survey, _____ is the single thing that would make 41% of the U.S. workers happier.

More money

One of the more readily accessible sources of generic job descriptions is the _______.

O*NET

In the context of pay relationships, which of the following is illegal in the United States?

Paying on the basis of one's age

Egalitarian pay structures have all BUT which of the following characteristics?

Prefer individual performance over team performance

Hierarchical pay structures have all BUT which of the following characteristics?

Prefer team performance over individual performance

James says " I don't trust the way that the company determines pay rates in my department". If James feels this way despites being happy with his current salary, he is most likely concerned about _____.

Procedural Justice.

In a strategic approach to pay, internal alignment is the ____ issue to be decided.

Second

Most unions prefer which of the following?

Small pay differences among jobs and seniority- based promotions

________ looks at how an organization does its work: activities pursed to accomplish specific objectives for specific customers.

Supply chain analysis

The problem that is most likely to be faced by organizations using an egalitarian pay structure is ____.

The difficulty in external recruitment

Common bases for modern pay structures include all BUT which of the following?

The extent of external competitiveness and equity

The parable of the vineyard owners and the compensation paid to the laborers illustrated:

The ignorance of the owner toward the content of work

Pay for temporary workers based upon _____.

The internal structure of their home employer

Pay for temporary workers is based upon _____.

The internal structure of their home employer

Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that define an internal pay structure?

The number of times the pay structure has been changed

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of aligned pay structure?

They are designed to increase the turnover rate.

Incentives do not permanently increase labor costs because:

They are one-time payments

Which theory predicts that individual performance will be maximized when the pay difference between job levels is large?

Tournament theory

Which of the following programs introduced by Congress includes restrictions on executive pay that are designed to discourage executives from taking "unnecessary and excessive risks"?

Troubled Asset Relief Program

Marginal productivity theory argues that employers pay _____.

Use value

Which of the following is NOT a question to ask for determining if research has value?

Was the research conducted by PhD researchers?

The verification step of the government's job analysis method is always conducted with ____.

all the interviewees together

Union preferences are a major factor in _____ a total compensation strategy

assessing

The best way to establish _____ is to account for competing explanations, either statistically or through control groups.

causation

According to the government's procedures of the job analysis process, the first interview should be conducted with the ________.

first-level supervisor

External factors are dominant influences on job filled via:

hiring graduates

The advantage of using questionnaires in job analysis is that the involvement of employees _______.

increases their understanding of the process

Flexible-generic job descriptions would most likely be used with a(n) _____ strategy.

innovator

The process of collecting information that identifies the similarities and differences among jobs is known as _____.

job analysis

The list of tasks, duties, and responsibilities that make up a job is known as a ______.

job description

Engineering, sales, and maintenance are examples of _______.

job families

Issues of transparency, technology, and choice are most closely associated with the _____ aspect of mapping a total compensation strategy.

management

Gina announces that she would lose her job as her company is considering to offshore her job to another country. In this case, Gina is most likely to be working in a job that requires her to:

manually fix typos in a document

ADA has directly led many employers to ______.

modify the format of their job descriptions to specifically call out the essential elements.

All of the following statements regarding offshoring are true EXCEPT that ______.

offshoring is limited to low-skill jobs

Conventional methods of collecting job information are ______.

open to bias and favoritism

The role non-HR managers play in making pay decisions is called_____.

ownership

A group of tasks performed by one person makes up a

position

Jane works as a copy editor at TreeTime Inc. She receives an email from the human resources department with a link to a questionnaire that asks her to rate the necessary attributes required for her job. In this scenario, the approach used by TreeTime is characterized as:

quantitative job analysis

A specific statement of what a worker does on a job is known as a

task

The job analysis method that uses information input, mental processes, work output, job context, other job characteristics, relationships with other persons, and general dimensions is _______.

the PAQ

Job analysis is important both for managers and employees because it is ______.

the basis for a work-related rationale for pay differences

Job analysis is important for both managers and employees because it is

the basis for a work-related rationale for pay differences

Apart from being reliable, a job analysis is also considered valid if:

the results converge among the various sources of data and methods.

The government's job analysis procedures recommend interviewing

the typical employee

The most common way to collect job information is ______.

to ask the incumbents to fill out a questionnaire

If several incumbents, supervisors, and peers respond in similar ways to job analysis questionnaires, it suggests that the results are most likely to be ____.

valid