MCQ

1-As part of the policy at e-bay, when employees take advantage of ________ benefits, they are more likely to contribute to the strategic imperatives of product or service differentiation or cost reduction.*

employee assistance programs

flexible scheduling and leave

tuition reimbursement

outplacement assistance

2-Steve, the HR manager at XYZ company, is trying to refer the below information to the right category. Help him in accomplishing his task: All information describing specific preparation required for entry into a job plus past work experience contributing to qualifications for an occupation refers to:*

occupation-specific information

occupational requirements

experience requirements

workforce characteristics

3-Lucas broke his neck at work. The company called to inform him that they had to switch his benefits from the short-term disability account to the long-term disability account. Based on this decision, how long has he been off work?*

at least 3 to 6 months

12 months

at least 1 to 2 months

at least 6 to 8 months

4-Refers to corrections that companies can make for differences between their jobs and external benchmark jobs. These corrections are based on subjective judgments rather than on objective criteria.*

benchmark jobs

market pay line

job leveling

relevant labor market

5-During their Job reengineering process, Al-Sultan and Co. had to communicate formally with its employees throughout the job analysis and evaluation processes in order to ensure that employees understand and accept the new job evaluation process and results. This refers to the following step of the Job evaluation process:*

training employees to conduct job evaluations

communicating with employees

documenting the job evaluation plan

setting up the appeals process

6-Azadea Group was not able to decide about the compensation packages to offer to employees in its new unit in Morocco. The HR department had to search for wage data by retail sector for Morocco. This is an example of:*

national compensation data

wages by area and occupation

employment cost trends

earnings by industry

7-Is part of O*NET and lists categories of job and worker information. Job information contains the components that relate to the actual work activities of a job (i.e., information that HR professionals should include in the summary and duties sections of job descriptions). Worker information represents characteristics of employees that contribute to successful job performance.*

experience requirements

content model

worker requirements

worker characteristics

8-Based on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission guidelines, what refers to a body of information applied directly to the performance of a function?*

Ability

Knowledge

Competency

Skill

9-Fattal Company was facing a real problem recently. Unscheduled absenteeism has climbed to its highest levels the last month. HR professionals at Fattal changed their paid time off policy in order to reduce costs. Fattal used to grant each employee 10 vacation days, 5 paid days for sick leave, and 4 days for personal leave. With the new policy, Fattal combines vacation, sick leave, and personal leave policies into one paid time off policy (i.e., 19 days). The management kept funeral leave as a stand-alone policy. What is Fattal's new policy called?*

combined paid time off

paid time off

integrated paid time off

volunteer leave