BUS/409 BUS409 BUS 409 WEEK 6 QUIZ 5

Valid and reliable job evaluations result from which two conditions?

This describes job duties, tasks, and relevant factors needed to perform a job adequately.

What type of jobs provide reference points to judge against other jobs within a company?

George owns a small manufacturing plant that produces customized printed circuit boards. There are about 15 jobs to rate. What type of job-content evaluation approach do you suggest to George?

What source is generally able to provide the most extensive and detailed information about how job duties are performed?

What was the main effect created by the revisions to the ADA regulations passed in 2008?

Which unit in the job analysis process is the smallest?

A job analysis method is this if it yields the kind of information that it was designed to provide and accurately assesses each job's duties.

The federal GS classification system is divided into how many classifications?

In the job analysis process this term represents a group of positions that are identical with respect to their major tasks.

This is the systematic process for recognizing differences in the relative worth among a set of jobs and for establishing pay differentials accordingly.

Abilities, interests and work styles are elements for which O*NET category?

A human resource manager of a company decides to change the current job-content valuation technique by using a quantitative methodology. He thinks that the old approach fails to balance internal and external considerations while evaluating jobs. What type of job evaluation technique do you suggest for this HR manager?

Market-based job evaluation uses which method to collect data to determine prevailing pay rates?

These are the salient job characteristics that are the general basis for job evaluations and are used to establish relative pay rates.

XYZ Company is a world leader in medical device manufacturing. Aiming to continue its market position in this industry, XYZ Company pursues differentiation strategy. As a result, in order to attract and retain best employees, this company compensates its employees higher than almost all competitors. What kind of pay level policy does XYZ Company follow?

This BLS survey provides the quarterly measure of changes in labor and compensation costs, and is used as the principle economic indicator for the Federal Reserve.

What does Quartile 3 represent?

Companies pursuing a differentiation strategy are most likely to use which pay level policy?

As of September 2010, U.S. companies spent approximately how much per employee for discretionary benefits?

What does it mean when the distribution of data is skewed to the right?

This causes compensation survey data to become obsolete fairly quickly.

When using compensation survey data, statistical analyses are used to integrate this with the external market, in order to determine pay rates.

What would Yolanda's salary of $165,000 be considered if the means salary for B42DA, Inc., is $30,000 and the median salary is $32,000?

Which of the following are the three measures of dispersion?

Market lag policies are generally set to which quartile in the salary survey?

The NCS provided incidence and extensive data on which two types of compensation benefits?

Jose Escobar conducts a survey of salaries at UB2 Enterprises and finds that 50% of the workers fall below the market pay average of $32,000. In which quartile do the workers at ERL Enterprises fall?

The Consumer Price Index represents the average price changes for the price of goods and services in how many regions?

In statistical analysis, this term is used to signify the possible extreme observations.