MGMT 609 Week 8 Quiz

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Question 1

According to the reading "Pay Without Performance 2006 AMP", the author's suggestion about how to improve executive's compensation arrangements transparency includes below EXCEPT:

Select one:

 a. Firms should provide full details about the components of pay that are not deductible, place a monetary value on the costs of this non-deductibility to the firm, and disclose this dollar cost to investors.

 b. Companies should be required to place a monetary value on each benefit provided or promised to an executive, and to include this value in the summary compensation table the year in which the executive becomes entitled to it.

 c. Companies should make transparent to their shareholders how much of managers' profits from equity and non-equity compensation is due to general market and industry movements.

 d. Companies should be required to make transparent to shareholders the extent to which all of their executives have unloaded any equity instruments received as part of their compensation annually. 

Question 2

Contextual performance is defined as:

Select one:

 a. Employees' consummate effort to do their best, to help when needed, and to spontaneously solve unexpected problems. 

 b. Employees' consummate effort to complete work on tasks.

 c. Employees' consummate effort to increase performance quality and do their best when needed.

 d. Employees' consummate effort to reduce uncertainty in a given context.

Question 3

All of the following typically can contribute to absenteeism EXCEPT:

Select one:

 a. Absenteeism being seen as a normal practice.

 b. Less paid sick leave being offered. 

 c. Employees being unhappy with their work.

 d. Not providing financial incentives for attendance.