Compensation and Benefits Flashcards
In your capacity as a generalist, your ability to impact compensation will happen in the following way:
A. Staffing
B. Training
C. Recruiting
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
Compensation affects which groups of people in a company?
A. HR managers
B. Employees
C. Potential employees
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
As a compensation manager, you will not:
A. Manage company goals
B. Understand the compensation plan
C. Explain the compensation plan to others
D. Require the organization to implement a market-standardized compensation plan
D. Require the organization to implement a market-standardized compensation plan
What department of the company is not affected by the compensation plan?
A. Accounting
B. All departments are affected
C. Research and development
D. Marketing
B. All departments are affected
What is another term for “fringe benefits”?
A. Perks
B. Salary
C. Paid time off
D. Company salaries
A. Perks
True/False
One set of awards may fit one firm but may not fit another firm
True
To have an effective rewards system, you will not need to understand:
A. Market conditions
B. Customer needs
C. Employees’ previous salary
D. Profitability
C. Employees’ previous salary
What is variable pay?
A. Performance-based rewards and long-term equity
B. Being paid in a variety of ways (base salary, fringe benefits, etc)
C. Ability to negotiate salary
D. Being paid variably through the month
A. Performance-based rewards and long-term equity
What is base pay?
A. The salary or hourly wage including benefits
B. An hourly employee’s wage for training hours
C. The salary or hourly wage in exchange for the employee’s contribution to the organization
D. The salary based on the market rate
C. The salary or hourly wage in exchange for the employee’s contribution to the organization
Employee performance represents:
A. The quality of the work that individual employees produce in the organization
B. The quality and quantity of the work that an organization has in the market
C. The quantity of the work that individual employees produce in the organization
D. The quality and quantity of the work that individual employees produce in the organization
D. The quality and quantity of the work that individual employees produce in the organization
The organizational citizenship behavior is:
A. A value-creating activity that employees do as part of the job description
B. A value-creating activity that is asked from senior management to mid-level management to complete
C. A value-creating activity that engages employees, which is part of the job
D. A value-creating activity engaged in by employees, but not as part of the job
D. A value-creating activity engaged in by employees, but not as part of the job
Which of the following does organizational performance not include?
A. Developing employees
B. New product creation
C. Gains in market share
D. Effectiveness at meeting customer needs
A. Developing employees
Which of the following laws relates to total rewards?
A. Civil rights laws
B. Arbitrage law
C. Litigation
D. None of the above
A. Civil rights laws
Of the following, which is not considered a guide to fairness in total rewards:
A. Interactional
B. Extreme
C. Procedural
D. Distributive
B. Extreme
The employment relationship is:
A. An agreed-upon basis for organizations and people meeting each other’s needs
B. A disagreed-upon basis for organizations and people meeting each other’s needs
C. An agreed-upon basis for organizations and government meeting each other’s needs
D. None of the above
A. An agreed-upon basis for organizations and people meeting each other’s needs
Organization’s get work done through:
A. Product
B. Dollars
C. People
D. Customers
C. People
Total rewards includes:
A. Base salary and benefits
B. Benefits, base salary, paid time off
C. Benefits
D. Base salary
A. Base salary and benefits
True/False
Meaningful work would be considered a discretionary employee benefit
False
True/False
Understanding the total rewards system will not allow you to create a meaningful total rewards plan
False
Which of the following job families would not be affected by total rewards?
A. Engineers
B. Finance
C. Marketing
D. All job families are affected by total rewards
D. All job families are affected by total rewards
True/False
Pay is not a broad category that refers to the monetary compensation that is provided to an employee in exchange for their work
False
Cash compensation is monetary pay from ? to ?
A. Employers, employees
B. Employees, employers
C. Government, citizens
D. None of the above
A. Employers, employees
Fringe benefits have become quite ? to compensation plans.
A. Unimportant
B. Central
C. Conditional
D. Proven
B. Central
True/False
When you think about a company’s health benefits or retirement plan, you are thinking about employee benefits.
True
? Refers to the direct monetary pay given to an employee in exchange for their contributions to the organization
A. Total rewards
B. Time off
C. Benefits
D. Cash compensation
D. Cash compensation
Which of the following would not be included as an intangible reward?
A. Location
B. Salary
C. Positive working relationships
D. Meaningful work
B. Salary
True/False
Cash compensation can have an influence on the employee’s perception of how much they are valued at the firm
True
To create a strategic total rewards plan, you need to understand all of the following except:
A. Market
B. Benefits
C. Customers
D. None of the above
B. Benefits
Base pay includes:
A. Salary or hourly wages
B. Hourly and benefits
C. Benefits and salary
D. None of the above
A. Salary or hourly wages
Team performance:
A. Comprises the collective actions of groups of employees
B. Comprises senior management level of performance
C. Comprises customer feedback regarding employees
D. Comprises the star employees’ level of performance
A. Comprises the collective actions of groups of employees
True/False
Total rewards systems do not need to be reviewed to ensure that they are not penalizing such OCB’s and instead provide a degree of encouragement for those helpful behaviors.
False
Organizational performance includes all but:
A. Meeting customer needs
B. Profits
C. Employee satisfaction
D. New market share
C. Employee satisfaction
True/False
Employee perception of the organization has potential to lead to turnover and performance
True
True/False
Managing total rewards is an art and a science
True
A job incumbent is:
A. An employer that is seeking to hire new employees
B. An employee that is currently working in a job that you are studying
C. An employee agency seeking new part time workers
D. None of the above
B. An employee that is currently working in a job that you are studying
A traditional interview does not consist of:
A. Asking about family history
B. Time spent on activities on the job
C. Content
D. Skills
A. Asking about family history
In a traditional interview, one advantage would be:
A. Allowing for exploration
B. Asking for clarification
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above
C. Both A & B
This is a benefit to using generic questions in an interview:
A. Number of interviewers
B. Efficient in time
C. Length of interview
D. Financial cost
B. Efficient in time
This is a disadvantage to using generic questions in an interview:
A. Length of interview
B. Financial cost
C. Efficient in time
D. Amount of people in an interview
B. Financial cost
True/False
Key personnel throughout the organization should be involved in the data’s collection, synthesis, and documentation.
True
Job analysis is gained by
A. Guessing
B. Data
C. People
D. Computer graphics
C. People
Job analysis needs to be ____ to achieve buy in.
A. Respectable
B. Incredible
C. Credible
D. Understandable
C. Credible
Job analysis will be ___ if management and employees do not buy into it.
A. Useful
B. Useless
C. Understandable
D. None of the above
B. Useless
True/False
The goal of job analysis is to understand the work involved in creating value for the organization.
True
A reference ID is:
A. A series of numbers and letters that is used to reference a company
B. A series of numbers and letters that is used to reference a government agency
C. A series of numbers and letters that is used to reference an employee
D. A series of numbers and letters that is used to reference the job.
D. A series of numbers and letters that is used to reference the job.
A job family is:
A. A grouping of jobs that have similar functions or content
B. A grouping of employees that have similar functions
C. A grouping of management that have similar functions to other management in other companies
D. None of the above
A. A grouping of jobs that have similar functions or content.
The bulk of job descriptions do not include which of the following:
A. Requirements
B. Responsibilities
C. Tasks
D. Duties
A. Requirements
True/False
If pay rates are set based upon what a job was three years ago and not what it is today, then it will not meet the needs of the employees doing the job today.
True
KSAO’s stand for
A. Knowledge, Skills, Agility, and Other
B. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other
C. Kindness, Skills, Ability, and Other
D. Kindness, Skills, Agility, and Other
B. Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other
Job descriptions often contain information about the ____ that are important for accomplishing the job.
A. Relationships
B. Understanding
C. Monetary values
D. Strengths
A. Relationships
Job descriptions can also reference any ____ involved in doing the job.
A. Tools
B. Necessities
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above
A. Tools
True/False
Job descriptions are simple and cannot contain every detail relating to the job.
True
What is the longest a job description should be?
A. 3 pages
B. 1 page
C. 2 pages
D. 4 pages
B. 1 page