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According to the textbook,which of the following conducts five compensation surveys annually covering executive; management; professional,supervisory,and sales; information technology; and administrative and support positions?


A) Statistics Canada
B) Statistics Ontario
C) Statistics Toronto
D) The Toronto Board of Trade
E) The Toronto Board of Commerce

F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

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According to the textbook,which of the following do managers use to monitor and maintain external equity?


A) Salary surveys
B) Pay equity legislation
C) Human rights acts
D) Performance appraisals
E) Employee grievances

F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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The job evaluation committee typically includes several employees and has the important task of evaluating the worth of each job using which of the following?


A) Job variety
B) Job design
C) Comparable worth
D) Behavioural anchors
E) Compensable factors

F) A) and C)
G) D) and E)

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Victoria has been a contract worker for a construction company and has just been offered a full-time,non-contract position.She will now receive additional benefits,such as employer-paid insurance and vacation; what are these components of employee compensation called?


A) Indirect deposits
B) Indirect financial payments
C) Variable payments
D) Direct deposits
E) Direct financial payments

F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

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Justin used to assemble 18 desks per hour during his shift for the furniture company he works for; then he found out that other workers who only assemble 13 to 15 desks per hour were receiving the same compensation as he was.Justin now assembles 14 desks per hour.Which of the following would help to explain Justin's behaviour?


A) Pay scales
B) Workers compensation
C) Human rights
D) Equity theory
E) Piece work

F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

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When Mary started her web application company one of her goals was to ensure job applicants and employees would not experience discrimination as it related to their pay and opportunities for advancement.Which type of legislation did Mary adhere to?


A) Equity theory
B) Workers compensation
C) Human rights
D) Overtime pay
E) Pensions

F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

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According to the textbook,assigning pay rates to each pay grade (or to each job) is usually accomplished with which of the following?


A) A rate range
B) A job analysis
C) A wage grade
D) A wage curve
E) A performance appraisal

F) B) and D)
G) D) and E)

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D

Underpaid employees should have their wages raised to which of the following?


A) An external industry pay grade system
B) The midpoint of an employee's pay grade
C) The minimum of the rate range for their pay grade
D) The maximum of the rate range for their pay grade
E) The maximum of the next highest pay grade

F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

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Fareena runs a small manufacturing company.A worker hurt his hand on a vertical grinding machine.Fareena filed the proper legal documents quickly so that the worker could receive benefits while recovering from his injury.Which type of legislation did Fareena adhere to?


A) Pay equity
B) Workers compensation
C) Human rights
D) Overtime pay
E) Pensions

F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

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According to the textbook,which of the following most commonly uses the classification/grading job evaluation method in order to categorize jobs into groups?


A) Small businesses
B) Leading-edge Fortune 500 businesses
C) The public sector
D) The private sector
E) Non-profit charitable organizations

F) A) and D)
G) A) and B)

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The classification/grading method of job evaluation involves categorizing jobs into which of the following?


A) Teams
B) Groups
C) Hierarchies
D) Occupations
E) Departments

F) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

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According to the textbook,what is the basic advantage of broadbanding?


A) Facilitates internal and external equity
B) Encourages human rights adherence by the employer
C) Eliminates upward bias in job evaluation
D) Injects greater flexibility into employee compensation
E) Works well with highly specialized jobs

F) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

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Describe pay-for-knowledge compensation systems as they relate to competencies and describe what a pay-for-knowledge program should include.

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One point for defining pay-for-knowledge...

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According to the textbook,which of the following are the most popular job evaluation methods that can be applied to compensation decisions?


A) The classification and ranking methods
B) The classification and point methods
C) The ranking and point methods
D) The factor comparison and point methods
E) The ranking and factor comparison methods

F) A) and E)
G) None of the above

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B

Which of the following is the term used to describe the graphical depiction of the relationship between the value of the job and the average wage paid for that job?


A) Pay grade chart
B) Wage curve
C) Rate range graph
D) Wage chart
E) Pay grade curve

F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Elaine runs a call centre in Calgary.She is worried that her employees will leave for a similar role at another call centre nearby.What tool will help her determine if her employees are being paid competitively?


A) Employee grievances
B) Pay equity legislation
C) Human rights acts
D) Performance appraisals
E) Salary surveys

F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

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Which of the following is another way of categorizing jobs when undertaking the job classification/grading method,other than using class descriptions and placing jobs into classes based on their correspondence to these descriptions?


A) Draw up a set of classifying rules for each class and then categorize the jobs according to these rules.
B) Rank jobs by classifying factors.
C) Rank jobs against other classes of jobs.
D) Assign points to various job classes.
E) Rank jobs from lowest to highest class.

F) All of the above
G) C) and D)

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According to the textbook,most employers rely heavily on formal or informal surveys of what other employers are paying.

A) True
B) False

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True

Which job evaluation method identifies compensable factors in a job as well as the degree to which each of these factors is present in the job and then calculates a value for each job?


A) Factor comparison method
B) Ranking method
C) Point method
D) Hay plan method
E) Job classification method

F) A) and D)
G) A) and E)

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What is the job evaluation method that intuitively rates each job relative to all other jobs,usually based on some overall factor like "more important" or "of greater value or worth"?


A) Critical incidence method
B) Factor comparison method
C) Classification method
D) Point method
E) Ranking method

F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

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