WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS () /
A+ GRADE
/. Direct financial compensation - Answer-✅compensation received in the form of
salary, wages, commissions, stock options or bonuses
/.indirect financial compensation - Answer-✅all the tangible and financially valued
rewards that are not included in direct compensation including free meals, vacation time
and health insurance
/.nonfinancial compensation - Answer-✅rewards and incentives given to employees
that aren't financial in nature
/.base pay - Answer-✅reflects the size and scope of an employee's responsibilities
/.severance pay - Answer-✅give to employees upon termination of their employment
/.fixed pay - Answer-✅pays employees a set amount regardless of performance
/.variable pay - Answer-✅bases some or all of an employee's compensation on
employee, team, or organizational
/.pay structure - Answer-✅the array of pay rates for different work or skills within a
single organization
/.pay mix - Answer-✅the relative emphasis give to different compensation components
/.pay leader - Answer-✅organization with a compensation policy of giving employees
greater rewards than competitors
/.pay follower - Answer-✅an organization that pays its front-line employees as little as
possible
/.resource dependence theory - Answer-✅proposition that organizational decisions are
influenced by both internal and external agents who control critical resources
/.wage differentials - Answer-✅differences in wage between various workers, groups of
workers, or workers within a career field
,/.labor market - Answer-✅all of the potential employees located within a geographic
area from which the organization might be able to hire
/.cost of living allowances - Answer-✅clauses in union contacts that automatically
increase wages base on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index
/.market pricing - Answer-✅uses external sources of information about how others are
compensating a certain position to assign value to a company's similar job
/.Compensation surveys - Answer-✅surveys of other organizations conducted to learn
what they are paying for specific jobs or job classes
/.benchmark jobs - Answer-✅jobs that tend to exist across departments and across
diverse organizations allowing them to be used as a basis for compensation
comparisons
/.job evaluation - Answer-✅a systematic process that uses expert judgement to assess
differences in value between jobs
/.ranking methos - Answer-✅subjectively compares jobs to each other based on their
overall worth to the organization
/.job classification method - Answer-✅subjectively classifies jobs into an exiting
hierarchy of grades and categories
/.point factor method - Answer-✅uses a set of compensable factors to determine a job's
value. skill, resp, effort, working cond.
/.compensable factor - Answer-✅any characteristic used to provide a basis for judging a
job's value
/.skills, responsibilities, effort, working conditions - Answer-✅Four categories of
compensable factors
/.Hay Group Guide Chart - Profile Method - Answer-✅a point-factor system is used to
produce both a profile and a point score for each position.
know how
problem solving
accountability
working conditions
/.Know-how, problem solving, accountability, working conditions - Answer-✅Hay Group
Method based on four main factors
,/.Position Analysis Questionnaire - Answer-✅a structured job evaluation questionnaire
that is statistically analyzed to calculate pay rates based on how the labor market is
valuing worker characteristics. a copyrighted, standardized, structured job analysis
questionnaire. 6 sections covering 187 job elements.
/.job pricing - Answer-✅the generation of salary structures and pay levels for each job
based on the job evaluation data
/.single rate system, pay grades and broadbanding - Answer-✅Three most common job
pricing systems
/.pay grade (pay scale) - Answer-✅the range of possible pay for a group of jobs
/.broadbanding - Answer-✅using very wide pay grades to increase pay flexibility
/.internal equity - Answer-✅when employees perceive their pay to be fair relative to the
pay of other jobs in the organization
/.employee equity - Answer-✅the perceived fairness of the relative pay between
employees performing similar jobs for the same organization
/.external equity - Answer-✅when an organization's employees believe that their pay is
fair when compared to what other employers pay their employees who perform similar
jobs
/.comparable worth - Answer-✅if two jobs have equal difficulty requirements, the pay
should be the same, regardless of who fills them
/.wage rate compression - Answer-✅starting salaries for new hires exceed the salaries
paid to experienced employees
/.golden parachute - Answer-✅lucrative benefits given to executives in the event the
company is taken over
/.Cost-of-living adjustments - Answer-✅pay increases to account for a higher cost of
living in one country versus another
/.Housing allowance - Answer-✅payments to subsidize or cover housing and related
costs
/.hardship premiums - Answer-✅increased salary for living in an area with a lower
quality of life, less safety, etc.
, /.tax equalization payments - Answer-✅increased salary to make up for higher taxes
that reduce take-home pay and decrease employee's purchasing power
/.inflation adjustments - Answer-✅larger and/or more frequent raises to maintain
employee's purchasing power in the face of inflation
/.Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Answer-✅a federal law that sets standards for
minimum wages, overtime pay, and equal pay for men and women performing the same
jobs
/.exempt employees - Answer-✅employees who meet one of the FLSA exemption
tests, are paid on a fixed salary basis and are not entitled to overtime pay
/.non-exempt employees - Answer-✅employees who do not meet any of one of the
FLSA exemption tests and are paid on an hourly basis and covered by wage and hour
laws regarding minimum wage, overtime pay and hours worked
/.workers' compensation - Answer-✅a type of insurance that replaces wages and
medical benefits for employees injured on the job in exchange for relinquishing the
employee's right to sue the employer for negligence
/.fixed rewards - Answer-✅predetermined compensation (salary and benefits)
/.variable rewards (incentives) - Answer-✅"at risk" rewards which are linked to factors
determined as valuable, including performance, skills, competence and contribution
/.- Recognize and reward high performers
- Increase the likelihood of achieving corporate goals
- Improve productivity
- Move away from an entitlement culture - Answer-✅Top four reasons organizations
give for tying pay to performance ar
/.- Preference of individual employees
- Size of the rewards for high performance
- Method of motivating individual job performance
- Objectivity of the evaluation process that determines the rewards - Answer-✅Before
designing an incentive pay plan to motivate performance, it is important to consider the
/.- Company performance
- Reduced merit increases
- Reductions in head count
- Reduced benefits
- Pay freezes - Answer-✅Most common way employers fund variable pay programs
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS () /
A+ GRADE
/. Direct financial compensation - Answer-✅compensation received in the form of
salary, wages, commissions, stock options or bonuses
/.indirect financial compensation - Answer-✅all the tangible and financially valued
rewards that are not included in direct compensation including free meals, vacation time
and health insurance
/.nonfinancial compensation - Answer-✅rewards and incentives given to employees
that aren't financial in nature
/.base pay - Answer-✅reflects the size and scope of an employee's responsibilities
/.severance pay - Answer-✅give to employees upon termination of their employment
/.fixed pay - Answer-✅pays employees a set amount regardless of performance
/.variable pay - Answer-✅bases some or all of an employee's compensation on
employee, team, or organizational
/.pay structure - Answer-✅the array of pay rates for different work or skills within a
single organization
/.pay mix - Answer-✅the relative emphasis give to different compensation components
/.pay leader - Answer-✅organization with a compensation policy of giving employees
greater rewards than competitors
/.pay follower - Answer-✅an organization that pays its front-line employees as little as
possible
/.resource dependence theory - Answer-✅proposition that organizational decisions are
influenced by both internal and external agents who control critical resources
/.wage differentials - Answer-✅differences in wage between various workers, groups of
workers, or workers within a career field
,/.labor market - Answer-✅all of the potential employees located within a geographic
area from which the organization might be able to hire
/.cost of living allowances - Answer-✅clauses in union contacts that automatically
increase wages base on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' cost of living index
/.market pricing - Answer-✅uses external sources of information about how others are
compensating a certain position to assign value to a company's similar job
/.Compensation surveys - Answer-✅surveys of other organizations conducted to learn
what they are paying for specific jobs or job classes
/.benchmark jobs - Answer-✅jobs that tend to exist across departments and across
diverse organizations allowing them to be used as a basis for compensation
comparisons
/.job evaluation - Answer-✅a systematic process that uses expert judgement to assess
differences in value between jobs
/.ranking methos - Answer-✅subjectively compares jobs to each other based on their
overall worth to the organization
/.job classification method - Answer-✅subjectively classifies jobs into an exiting
hierarchy of grades and categories
/.point factor method - Answer-✅uses a set of compensable factors to determine a job's
value. skill, resp, effort, working cond.
/.compensable factor - Answer-✅any characteristic used to provide a basis for judging a
job's value
/.skills, responsibilities, effort, working conditions - Answer-✅Four categories of
compensable factors
/.Hay Group Guide Chart - Profile Method - Answer-✅a point-factor system is used to
produce both a profile and a point score for each position.
know how
problem solving
accountability
working conditions
/.Know-how, problem solving, accountability, working conditions - Answer-✅Hay Group
Method based on four main factors
,/.Position Analysis Questionnaire - Answer-✅a structured job evaluation questionnaire
that is statistically analyzed to calculate pay rates based on how the labor market is
valuing worker characteristics. a copyrighted, standardized, structured job analysis
questionnaire. 6 sections covering 187 job elements.
/.job pricing - Answer-✅the generation of salary structures and pay levels for each job
based on the job evaluation data
/.single rate system, pay grades and broadbanding - Answer-✅Three most common job
pricing systems
/.pay grade (pay scale) - Answer-✅the range of possible pay for a group of jobs
/.broadbanding - Answer-✅using very wide pay grades to increase pay flexibility
/.internal equity - Answer-✅when employees perceive their pay to be fair relative to the
pay of other jobs in the organization
/.employee equity - Answer-✅the perceived fairness of the relative pay between
employees performing similar jobs for the same organization
/.external equity - Answer-✅when an organization's employees believe that their pay is
fair when compared to what other employers pay their employees who perform similar
jobs
/.comparable worth - Answer-✅if two jobs have equal difficulty requirements, the pay
should be the same, regardless of who fills them
/.wage rate compression - Answer-✅starting salaries for new hires exceed the salaries
paid to experienced employees
/.golden parachute - Answer-✅lucrative benefits given to executives in the event the
company is taken over
/.Cost-of-living adjustments - Answer-✅pay increases to account for a higher cost of
living in one country versus another
/.Housing allowance - Answer-✅payments to subsidize or cover housing and related
costs
/.hardship premiums - Answer-✅increased salary for living in an area with a lower
quality of life, less safety, etc.
, /.tax equalization payments - Answer-✅increased salary to make up for higher taxes
that reduce take-home pay and decrease employee's purchasing power
/.inflation adjustments - Answer-✅larger and/or more frequent raises to maintain
employee's purchasing power in the face of inflation
/.Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - Answer-✅a federal law that sets standards for
minimum wages, overtime pay, and equal pay for men and women performing the same
jobs
/.exempt employees - Answer-✅employees who meet one of the FLSA exemption
tests, are paid on a fixed salary basis and are not entitled to overtime pay
/.non-exempt employees - Answer-✅employees who do not meet any of one of the
FLSA exemption tests and are paid on an hourly basis and covered by wage and hour
laws regarding minimum wage, overtime pay and hours worked
/.workers' compensation - Answer-✅a type of insurance that replaces wages and
medical benefits for employees injured on the job in exchange for relinquishing the
employee's right to sue the employer for negligence
/.fixed rewards - Answer-✅predetermined compensation (salary and benefits)
/.variable rewards (incentives) - Answer-✅"at risk" rewards which are linked to factors
determined as valuable, including performance, skills, competence and contribution
/.- Recognize and reward high performers
- Increase the likelihood of achieving corporate goals
- Improve productivity
- Move away from an entitlement culture - Answer-✅Top four reasons organizations
give for tying pay to performance ar
/.- Preference of individual employees
- Size of the rewards for high performance
- Method of motivating individual job performance
- Objectivity of the evaluation process that determines the rewards - Answer-✅Before
designing an incentive pay plan to motivate performance, it is important to consider the
/.- Company performance
- Reduced merit increases
- Reductions in head count
- Reduced benefits
- Pay freezes - Answer-✅Most common way employers fund variable pay programs
