Exam Prep Job-Based Structures And Job Evaluation Chapter 5

1.

_____ is the process of systematically determining the relative worth of jobs for the purpose of creating an organization's job structure. 
 

2.

Which of the following is the underlying assumption in the assessment of job content? 
 

3.

The exchange value of a job is its _____. 
 

4.

Which of the following statements is true of a job evaluation plan? 
 

5.

A major decision in job evaluation is to: 
 

6.

Which of the following is a major decision in job evaluation? 
 

7.

In the context of internal alignment, which of the following is the correct sequence? 
 

8.

Which of the following is NOT true of the usage of multiple plans versus single job evaluation plans? 
 

9.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a benchmark job? 
 

10.

MXB Inc. is a carwash service provider. It orders the jobs in the company on the basis of the least important job to the most important job. In this case, MXB is most likely using a(n): 
 

11.

TreeWind Inc. is a bookstore that uses skill and responsibility as its compensable factors. It assigns 20 percent weight to responsibility and 80 percent weight to skill. If the responsibility factor scores a 60 after multiplying the subfactors with their corresponding weights, and if the skill factor has two subfactors that are rated as 4 and 5, what is the total weightage given to the job? 
 

12.

KayDen Corp., a small organization with 15 employees, conducts job evaluation using the least expensive method for the first time. In this case, KayDen is most likely to have used the _____. 
 

13.

All of the following are advantages of the ranking method of job evaluation EXCEPT that: 
 

14.

According to a WorldatWork survey, the primary method of job evaluation is _____. 
 

15.

The job evaluation method that most resembles a bookcase with many shelves is: 
 

16.

A job description is compared to class descriptions in the _____ of job evaluation. 
 

17.

The _____ method of job evaluation uses compensable factors. 
 

18.

Common characteristics of the point method include all of the following EXCEPT: 
 

19.

The _____ method of job evaluation is the most commonly used method in the United States and Europe. 
 

20.

In the point method, the second step in designing a plan is to: 
 

21.

In the context of the point method of job evaluation, _____ are those characteristics in the work that an organization values; that help it pursue its strategy and achieve its objectives. 
 

22.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of the point method? 
 

23.

Which of the following methods requires evaluators to agree on which jobs are the most and least valuable, then the next most and least valued, and so on until all the jobs have been ordered? 
 

24.

The final step in designing a point plan involves _____. 
 

25.

The most widely used point method job evaluation is the: 
 

26.

Research shows that skills, one of the compensable factors, accounts for _____ percent or more of the variance in job evaluation results. 
 

27.

Research shows that _____ factor(s) account(s) for 98 to 99 percent of the variance in job evaluation plans. 
 

28.

Most factor scales have _____ degrees. 
 

29.

When a statistical process is used to duplicate an existing pay structure, it is called: 
 

30.

_____ are more likely to conduct job evaluations of senior management jobs. 
 

31.

A job structure based upon job value orders jobs on the basis of the relative contribution of the skills, duties, and responsibilities of each job to the organization's goals. 
 
True    False

32.

A representative sample of benchmark jobs will include the entire domain of work being evaluated and capture the diversity of the work within that domain. 
 
True    False

33.

The number of job evaluation plans required depends only upon the number of employees in the organization. 
 
True    False

34.

Paired-comparison and alternate-ranking methods may be more reliable than simple ranking. 
 
True    False

35.

An advantage of the ranking method is that the basis for comparison is called out. 
 
True    False

36.

Point plans represent a significant change from ranking and classification methods in that they make explicit the criteria for evaluating jobs: compensable factors. 
 
True    False

37.

Compensable factors are aspects of work that add value to the organization. 
 
True    False

38.

One way of evaluating a managerial job's multinational responsibilities would be to rate the percent of time spent on multinational issues. 
 
True    False

39.

Since business strategies may change often, compensable factors should rarely be added or deleted. 
 
True    False

40.

The primary reason for documenting the views of employees and supervisors on compensable factors is to meet requirements of the Equal Pay Act. 
 
True    False

41.

The NEMA plan explicitly states that the compensable factor experience should be correlated with tenure. 
 
True    False

42.

Each compensable factor degree should be equidistant from the adjacent degrees. 
 
True    False

43.

One of the criteria for scaling compensable factors is to ensure that the number of degrees used is necessary to distinguish among jobs. 
 
True    False

44.

Factors are scaled after factor weights have been assigned. 
 
True    False

45.

The most common way of allocating weights to factors is regression modeling. 
 
True    False

46.

A criterion pay structure is a pay structure that can be duplicated with a point evaluation plan. 
 
True    False

47.

The policy capturing approach and the committee a priori approach for developing pay structures yield the same pay structure. 
 
True    False

48.

Research shows that the weights assigned to compensable factors can affect the resulting pay structure. 
 
True    False

49.

Focusing on the end product of the internal alignment process, the pay structure, is more important for acceptance of the results than focusing on the approach chosen. 
 
True    False

50.

The final result of the job analysis-job description-job evaluation process is a hierarchy of work. 
 
True    False

51.

What are the major decisions in a job evaluation process? 
 

52.

What are the characteristics of a benchmark job? 
 

53.

What are the two aspect of diversity in work? 
 

54.

Discuss the two common methods of ranking. 
 

55.

What are the steps in designing a point plan?