WGU C236 COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS |OA| OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT | 189 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATED 2025/2026 (GRADED A+)
Distributive Justice - CORRECT ANSWERS-Perceptions are based upon employees' views of
the distribution of rewards in the organization.
Equity Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS-Based on comparisons between the ratio of employees
inputs and rewards to the ratio of inputs and rewards of others.
Benchmark Competitors - CORRECT ANSWERS-A selection of primary organizations that
exemplify the labor and product/service markets in which the organization competes.
Pay compression - CORRECT ANSWERS-New employees and long-tenured employees are paid
very similar amounts.
Hybrid Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Employing a combination of cost-leadership,
differentiation and niche-focused business strategies.
Critical Success Factors - CORRECT ANSWERS-Capabilities, activities, customer perceptions
and market positions that allow an organization to out-compete its rivals.
Total rewards strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The combination of pay forms, plans, policies
and practices that enable long-term organizational performance.
Total Reward Content Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Specifies the type, level and
combination of rewards offered to employees.
Reward Form Combinations Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The reward forms offered (cash,
benefits, etc.) and the way in which they relate to each other.
, Reward Level Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-How much is being offered?
Absolute level - CORRECT ANSWERS-The reward can be defined.
Relative Level - CORRECT ANSWERS-States the rewards strategy as greater than, equal to, or
less than some labor market reference point.
Centralized approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Human Resources makes all the decisions
Decentralized approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Decisions are made by the employee's
immediate supervisor or manager.
Job Analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS-The process of systematically analyzing positions that
result in completed work in organizations.
Traditional interview method - CORRECT ANSWERS-The job analyst asks the job incumbent
preset questions about the content, skills needed and time spent on activities in the job.
Panel Interview - CORRECT ANSWERS-Multiple job incumbents (and sometime multiple job
analysts) all meet together to analyze the job.
Business Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The collection of decision, approaches, and activities
that allow an organization to complete and win.
Cost Leadership Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Focusing business priories on providing a
lower-cost product or service.
Differentiation Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Providing innovative, exceptional, and high
quality products and/or services to customers.
Niche-Focused Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Targeting business priorities toward addressing
a specific section of the market
ASSESSMENT | 189 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
UPDATED 2025/2026 (GRADED A+)
Distributive Justice - CORRECT ANSWERS-Perceptions are based upon employees' views of
the distribution of rewards in the organization.
Equity Theory - CORRECT ANSWERS-Based on comparisons between the ratio of employees
inputs and rewards to the ratio of inputs and rewards of others.
Benchmark Competitors - CORRECT ANSWERS-A selection of primary organizations that
exemplify the labor and product/service markets in which the organization competes.
Pay compression - CORRECT ANSWERS-New employees and long-tenured employees are paid
very similar amounts.
Hybrid Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Employing a combination of cost-leadership,
differentiation and niche-focused business strategies.
Critical Success Factors - CORRECT ANSWERS-Capabilities, activities, customer perceptions
and market positions that allow an organization to out-compete its rivals.
Total rewards strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The combination of pay forms, plans, policies
and practices that enable long-term organizational performance.
Total Reward Content Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Specifies the type, level and
combination of rewards offered to employees.
Reward Form Combinations Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The reward forms offered (cash,
benefits, etc.) and the way in which they relate to each other.
, Reward Level Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-How much is being offered?
Absolute level - CORRECT ANSWERS-The reward can be defined.
Relative Level - CORRECT ANSWERS-States the rewards strategy as greater than, equal to, or
less than some labor market reference point.
Centralized approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Human Resources makes all the decisions
Decentralized approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Decisions are made by the employee's
immediate supervisor or manager.
Job Analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS-The process of systematically analyzing positions that
result in completed work in organizations.
Traditional interview method - CORRECT ANSWERS-The job analyst asks the job incumbent
preset questions about the content, skills needed and time spent on activities in the job.
Panel Interview - CORRECT ANSWERS-Multiple job incumbents (and sometime multiple job
analysts) all meet together to analyze the job.
Business Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-The collection of decision, approaches, and activities
that allow an organization to complete and win.
Cost Leadership Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Focusing business priories on providing a
lower-cost product or service.
Differentiation Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Providing innovative, exceptional, and high
quality products and/or services to customers.
Niche-Focused Strategy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Targeting business priorities toward addressing
a specific section of the market
