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HSA 4340 Exam – Questions/Answers (Solved)A department manager has no responsibility for apparent compensation
inequities other than reporting them to human resources.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
A particular strength of the team appraisal process lies in the implicit
assumption that all team members perform at an equivalent level.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
A department manager should never make a specific salary offer within the
context of a selection interview.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has
essentially replaced the major provisions of the Federal Insurance
Contributions Act (FICA).
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
The terms "average" and "standard" are not interchangeable; the actual
"average" of a group's performance is always higher than "standard"
performance.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
Completed performance appraisals can at times be considered legal
documentation that the organization could be penalized for discarding.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
Workers' Compensation is a benefit that is mandated by law.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
,It is not necessary for a department manager to know how the
compensation systems works because such systems are the responsibility
of human resources.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
Portable benefits have been an innovation of recent years to serve an
increasingly mobile work force.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
The benefits most preferred by the majority of employees are health
insurance, paid vacations, and flexible sick-time plans.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
The single most important objective of performance appraisal is
improvement of performance in the job the person presently holds.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
There is little value in regularly appraising the performance of an
individual who regularly does standard work and can go no higher in
position or pay.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
The manager should be familiar with current pay scales for all positions in
the department and be able to explain to employees how the scales are
administered.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
It is essential for the department manager to be intimately knowledgeable
of all of the organization's benefits plans.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
,Rather than rely solely on information from human resources, the
department manager should periodically make an independent survey of
wages for comparable positions in the community.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
Many highly effective job-description based appraisal systems use only a
three point scale.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
In an appraisal rating scale it is best to use an even number of scale points,
such as four or six, to discourage users from automatically focusing on a
midpoint.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - b. false
Unemployment compensation is generally made available to people who
voluntarily resign their
employment or who are discharged for cause.
O True
6 False Correct Ans - F
A result of the steady replacement of defined benefit pension plans with
defined contribution plans has been the increase of individuals' level of
responsibility concerning their own eventual retirement income.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
Individual employees have the right to know the hourly rate minimum and
maximums for their pay scale as well as their own actual rates of pay.
a. True
b. False Correct Ans - a. true
Pay affects:
a. employee motivation
b. absenteeism and turnover
c. level of employee satisfaction
d. all of the above Correct Ans - d. all of the above
, When a lower level position is paid more than a higher level position it is
known as:
a. internal equity
b. external equity
c. salary range
d. salary inversion
e. longevity Correct Ans - d. salary inversion
As compared with timing appraisals to coincide with each employee's
anniversary date, the practice of evaluating all employees during the same
brief time period:
a. is recommended as the preferred timing of appraisals by external
regulatory agencies.
b. Has been proven to consistently produce inadequate appraisals that lack
depth of detail.
c. Enhances the accuracy with which a known budgeted amount of merit
increase money can be distributed.
d. Is preferred by many evaluators because it involves considerably less
work overall. Correct Ans - c. Enhances the accuracy with which a
known budgeted amount of merit increase money can be distributed.
Motivational theory based on measuring inputs and outputs.
a. Equity Theory
b. Expectancy Theory
c. Maslovian Theory
d. Angelettian Theorv Correct Ans - a. Equity Theory
The U. S. government ordering discontinuation of the process of freely
sharing wage and salary information among organizations because:
a. Too much erroneous information was regularly disseminated by
individuals who were unqualified to conduct
such surveys.
b. Individual organization's conducting their own surveys were infringing
on the territory of trade associations
and professional survey firms.
c. An uncontrolled variety of survey designs rendered most of the data that
was gathered only marginally
usable.
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