When employees are enthusiastic about contributing to a company's success, they have excellent:
Membership behaviour
Task behaviour
Organizational citizenship behaviour
Job satisfaction behaviour
Which of the following is an example of "indirect pay"?
Progression adjustment
Merit adjustment
Base Pay
Vacation pay
Which of the following statements is false about compa-ratio?
Compa-ratio will go up if an early retirement program for long-term employees is introduced.
Compa-ratio will go up if a downsizing is done by reverse seniority.
Compa-ratio will go down with the hiring of many new grads.
Compa-ratios less than 1 are acceptable.
Which of the following statements about compensation surveys is false?
The mathematical middle of a data set is its average.
The 75th percentile is 25 percent higher than the 50th percentil
A weighted average is a mean that has been adjusted to reflect the size of the organizations in the survey.
The median is the value in a ranking of pay levels below which half the employers are paid less.
Which of the following is a long-term compensation plan?
Goal-sharing plan
Competitive bonus plan
Gain-sharing plan
Share purchase plan
Which of the following statements is false about reinforcement theory?
Positive reinforcement increases positive behaviour.
Extinction decreases negative behaviour.
Negative reinforcement decreases positive behaviour.
Punishment decreases negative behaviour.
Which of the following terms is associated with equity theory?
Procedural Justice
Instrumentality
Valence
Task Significance
When a job is designed to enable the employee to perform the complete cycle of job activities, the employee will enjoy __________ the job provides.
High task significance
High skill variety
High job autonomy
High task identity
What compensable factors are required in a job evaluation process for it to be compliant with the pay equity legislation?
Education, experience, authority, performance
Skill, effort, responsibility, working conditions
Knowledge, skill, experience, working conditions
Job class, gender dominance, career level, internal equity
Which of the following statements is true about a broadband base pay structure?
It is most appropriate for unionized environments.
It is less flexible than a standard pay structure.
It has fewer pay bands than a standard pay structure.
It results in a higher incidence of promotions.
Which of the following is NOT an element of job enrichment?
Job autonomy
Job enlargement
Task identity
Skill variety
Which of the following employee reward is a good long-term retention strategy?
Stock options
Commission
Piece work
Gain sharing
Which of the following is a design consideration when designing profit-sharing plans?
Establishing the share price
Establishing the vesting period
The size of base pay reductions needed to fund the pool
Employee eligibility
Which of the following statements is false about the job evaluation process?
It is the process of collecting information on which job descriptions are based.
It establishes the internal equity between jobs.
It can be an adversarial process.
It defines the criteria for determining job value.
Which of the following is the simplest job evaluation process?
Factor comparison method
Ranking method
Classification method
Point factor method
The first step in analyzing compensation survey data is:
Establishing relative pay grades and ranges
Calculating compa-ratios
Correlating job evaluation points with the market data
Assessing measures of central tendency and variation
What should employees expect under an employee stock bonus plan?
Employees receive shares at no cost.
Employees are able to purchase company shares based on performance.
Employees receive a bonus equivalent to the increase in company share value.
Employees receive the cash value of phantom shares.
Which of the following theories states that stimulus leads to response that leads to consequence?
Punishment
Consequence
Reinforcement
Equity