Deck 8: Compensation and Benefits

Question 1

It is not necessary for a department manager to know how the compensation systems works because such systems are the responsibility of human resources.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

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.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

A department manager has no responsibility for apparent compensation inequities other than reporting them to human resources.

Question 5

A department manager should never make a specific salary offer within the context of a interview with a job candidate.

Question 6

It is essential for the department manager to be intimately knowledgeable of all of the organization's benefits plans.

Question 7

The benefits most preferred by the majority of employees are health insurance, paid vacations, and flexible sick-time plans.

Question 8

Portable benefits have been a innovation of recent years to serve an increasingly mobile work force.

Question 9

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.

Question 10

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has essentially replaced the major provisions of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).

Question 11

What is true of investigation by the U. S. Department of Laborof the organization's compliance with the federal wage-and-hour laws?

A) It can be avoided by deferring the investigation to the comparable state agency that operates under considerably looser rules.
B) It is invariably a routine audit of practices for which the organization is notified weeks in advance.
C) It is often triggered by a complaint from a present or former employee whose identity is shielded by the DOL.
D) It is conducted primarily to determine whether the organization's finance and human resources staff are fully conversant with wage and hour law.

Question 12

What is true for a complaint of discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)?

A) It must be taken to the EEOC by an attorney acting on behalf of the complaining individual.
B) It will, in most instances and in most states, be referred to the State Division of Human Rights (DHR) or comparable agency.
C) It is costly to file, thus discouraging any number of potential complaints.
D) It invariably means a hard time for the organization because the EEOC is a federal regulatory body.

Question 13

What can be said of claims for unemployment compensation by employees who have been terminated in one manner or another?

A) They are of no concern in those few parts of the country where there is no unemployment compensation.
B) They should always be challenged by the organization so as to keep associated expenses to a minimum.
C) They are screened by the unemployment office to ensure their validity before being delivered to the organization.
D) They should be challenged selectively based on whether the filing employee appears to be legally entitled to such compensation.

Question 14

Which are the principal statutory benefits that must be provided to workers in all U. S. states and territories?

A) Workers' Compensation, unemployment compensation, and short-term disability
B) Workers' Compensation and unemployment compensation
C) Unemployment compensation, short-term disability, and pension
D) Workers' Compensation and short-term disability

Question 15

Why did the U. S. government order discontinuation of free sharing of wage and salary information among organizations?

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.
D) The open salary survey activity was adjudged illegal under existing anti-trust legislation.

Question 16

If a fast food chain hires many 15 year-olds with papers allowing them to work, what might be expected a matter of course.?

Question 17

When a lawsuit or a Division of Human Rights complaint is filed against an organization, should individual employees purge their files of any potentially harmful, embarrassing, or confusing documentation related to the complaint? Why, or why not?

Question 18

Why should employers not challenge all unemployment compensation claims that are filed?

Question 19

How and when did the individual states become responsible for implementing their own unemployment insurance programs?

Question 20

Under what conditions might an organization decide to pay a wage rate for a particular skill that is known to be higher than all other employers in the community are paying?