WGU C202 MANAGING HUMAN. EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS L LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
Compensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options or bonuses -
ANS Direct financial compensation
all the tangible and financially valued rewards that are not included in direct compensation
including free meals, vacation time and health insurance - ANS indirect financial
compensation
rewards and incentives given to employees that aren't financial in nature - ANS nonfinancial
compensation
reflects the size and scope of an employee's responsibilities - ANS base pay
give to employees upon termination of their employment - ANS severance pay
pays employees a set amount regardless of performance - ANS fixed pay
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,bases some or all of an employee's compensation on employee, team, or organizational -
ANS variable pay
the array of pay rates for different work or skills within a single organization - ANS pay
structure
the relative emphasis give to different compensation components - ANS pay mix
organization with a compensation policy of giving employees greater rewards than competitors
- ANS pay leader
an organization that pays its front-line employees as little as possible - ANS pay follower
proposition that organizational decisions are influenced by both internal and external agents
who control critical resources - ANS resource dependence theory
differences in wage between various workers, groups of workers, or workers within a career
field - ANS wage differentials
all of the potential employees located within a geographic area from which the organization
might be able to hire - ANS labor market
clauses in union contacts that automatically increase wages base on the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics' cost of living index - ANS cost of living allowances
uses external sources of information about how others are compensating a certain position to
assign value to a company's similar job - ANS market pricing
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,surveys of other organizations conducted to learn what they are paying for specific jobs or job
classes - ANS Compensation surveys
jobs that tend to exist across departments and across diverse organizations allowing them to be
used as a basis for compensation comparisons - ANS benchmark jobs
a systematic process that uses expert judgement to assess differences in value between jobs -
ANS job evaluation
subjectively compares jobs to each other based on their overall worth to the organization -
ANS ranking methos
subjectively classifies jobs into an exiting hierarchy of grades and categories - ANS job
classification method
uses a set of compensable factors to determine a job's value. skill, resp, effort, working cond. -
ANS point factor method
any characteristic used to provide a basis for judging a job's value - ANS compensable factor
Four categories of compensable factors - ANS skills, responsibilities, effort, working
conditions
a point-factor system is used to produce both a profile and a point score for each position.
know how
problem solving
accountability
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, working conditions - ANS Hay Group Guide Chart - Profile Method
Hay Group Method based on four main factors - ANS Know-how, problem solving,
accountability, working conditions
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. - ANS Position
Analysis Questionnaire
the generation of salary structures and pay levels for each job based on the job evaluation data -
ANS job pricing
Three most common job pricing systems - ANS single rate system, pay grades and
broadbanding
the range of possible pay for a group of jobs - ANS pay grade (pay scale)
using very wide pay grades to increase pay flexibility - ANS broadbanding
when employees perceive their pay to be fair relative to the pay of other jobs in the
organization - ANS internal equity
the perceived fairness of the relative pay between employees performing similar jobs for the
same organization - ANS employee equity
when an organization's employees believe that their pay is fair when compared to what other
employers pay their employees who perform similar jobs - ANS external equity
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QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS L LATEST VERSION 2025/2026.
Compensation received in the form of salary, wages, commissions, stock options or bonuses -
ANS Direct financial compensation
all the tangible and financially valued rewards that are not included in direct compensation
including free meals, vacation time and health insurance - ANS indirect financial
compensation
rewards and incentives given to employees that aren't financial in nature - ANS nonfinancial
compensation
reflects the size and scope of an employee's responsibilities - ANS base pay
give to employees upon termination of their employment - ANS severance pay
pays employees a set amount regardless of performance - ANS fixed pay
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,bases some or all of an employee's compensation on employee, team, or organizational -
ANS variable pay
the array of pay rates for different work or skills within a single organization - ANS pay
structure
the relative emphasis give to different compensation components - ANS pay mix
organization with a compensation policy of giving employees greater rewards than competitors
- ANS pay leader
an organization that pays its front-line employees as little as possible - ANS pay follower
proposition that organizational decisions are influenced by both internal and external agents
who control critical resources - ANS resource dependence theory
differences in wage between various workers, groups of workers, or workers within a career
field - ANS wage differentials
all of the potential employees located within a geographic area from which the organization
might be able to hire - ANS labor market
clauses in union contacts that automatically increase wages base on the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics' cost of living index - ANS cost of living allowances
uses external sources of information about how others are compensating a certain position to
assign value to a company's similar job - ANS market pricing
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,surveys of other organizations conducted to learn what they are paying for specific jobs or job
classes - ANS Compensation surveys
jobs that tend to exist across departments and across diverse organizations allowing them to be
used as a basis for compensation comparisons - ANS benchmark jobs
a systematic process that uses expert judgement to assess differences in value between jobs -
ANS job evaluation
subjectively compares jobs to each other based on their overall worth to the organization -
ANS ranking methos
subjectively classifies jobs into an exiting hierarchy of grades and categories - ANS job
classification method
uses a set of compensable factors to determine a job's value. skill, resp, effort, working cond. -
ANS point factor method
any characteristic used to provide a basis for judging a job's value - ANS compensable factor
Four categories of compensable factors - ANS skills, responsibilities, effort, working
conditions
a point-factor system is used to produce both a profile and a point score for each position.
know how
problem solving
accountability
3 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, working conditions - ANS Hay Group Guide Chart - Profile Method
Hay Group Method based on four main factors - ANS Know-how, problem solving,
accountability, working conditions
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. - ANS Position
Analysis Questionnaire
the generation of salary structures and pay levels for each job based on the job evaluation data -
ANS job pricing
Three most common job pricing systems - ANS single rate system, pay grades and
broadbanding
the range of possible pay for a group of jobs - ANS pay grade (pay scale)
using very wide pay grades to increase pay flexibility - ANS broadbanding
when employees perceive their pay to be fair relative to the pay of other jobs in the
organization - ANS internal equity
the perceived fairness of the relative pay between employees performing similar jobs for the
same organization - ANS employee equity
when an organization's employees believe that their pay is fair when compared to what other
employers pay their employees who perform similar jobs - ANS external equity
4 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
