WGU C236 Compensation and Benefits
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How do employers define total rewards? ✔✔All forms of pay and compensation, tangible benefits,
and other intangible rewards that an organization provides
Cash compens
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WGU C236 Compensation and Benefits
Already Passed
How do employers define total rewards? ✔✔All forms of pay and compensation, tangible benefits,
and other intangible rewards that an organization provides
Cash compensation is the only element of a total rewards package. ✔✔False
Total Rewards refers to all forms of pay and compensation, tangible benefits, and other intangible
rewards that an organization provides
Which of the following is not considered an intangible reward? ✔✔Cash bonuses
Cash Bonuses are not considered intangible rewards.
Cash compensation influences: ✔✔Employee perception
In this course, you will learn that as a compensation manager, you will: ✔✔Improve compensation
systems and better enable your organization to meet its goals
In your capacity as a generalist, your ability to impact compensation will happen in the following
way: ✔✔Staffing
Training
Recruiting
Compensation affects which groups of people in a company? ✔✔HR managers
Employees
Potential employees
As a compensation manager, you will not: ✔✔Require the organization to implement a marketstandardized compensation plan
What department of the company is not affected by the compensation plan? ✔✔All departments
are affected
What is another term for "fringe benefits"? ✔✔Another term for "fringe benefits" is perks.
One set of awards may fit one firm but may not fit another firm. ✔✔True
To have an effective rewards system, you will not need to understand: ✔✔Employees' previous
salary
An effective rewards system will require you to have a clear understanding of how your business
competes in the market, meets customer needs, and remains profitable.
What is variable pay? ✔✔Performance-based rewards and long-term equity
Variable Pay can include performance-based rewards such as bonuses and commissions, as well
as longer-term equity rewards such as stock options.
What is base pay? ✔✔The salary or hourly wage in exchange for the employee's contribution to
the organization
The salary or hourly wage in exchange for the employee's contribution to the organization.
Employee Performance represents: ✔✔The quality and quantity of the work that individual
employees produce in the organization
An organizational citizenship behavior is: ✔✔A value-creating activity engaged in by employees,
but not as part of the job
Which of the following does organizational performance not include? ✔✔Developing employees
is not included in organizational performance.
Which of the following laws relates to total rewards? ✔✔Civil Rights Laws
Of the following, which is not considered a guide to fairness in total rewards: ✔✔Extreme
There are three different types of fairness perceptions that should be considered in developing a
Total Rewards system: Distributive, Procedural, and Interactional.
The employment relationship is: ✔✔An agreed-upon basis for organizations and people meeting
each other's needs
Organizations get work done through: ✔✔People
Total rewards includes: ✔✔Base salary and benefits
Meaningful work would be considered a discretionary employee benefit. ✔✔False
Understanding the total rewards system will not allow you to create a meaningful total rewards
plan. ✔✔False
Which of the following job families would not be affected by total rewards? ✔✔All job families
are affected by total rewards
Pay is not a broad category that refers to the monetary compensation that is provided to an
employee in exchange for their work. ✔✔False
Cash compensation is monetary pay from ____________ to __________________.
✔✔Employers, employees
Fringe benefits have become quite ____________ to compensation plans. ✔✔Central
When you think about a company's health benefits or retirement plan, you are thinking about
employee benefits. ✔✔True
_______________________ refers to the direct monetary pay given to an employee in exchange
for their contributions to the organization. ✔✔Cash compensation
Which of the following would not be included as an intangible reward? ✔✔Salary
Cash compensation can have an influence on the employee's perception of how much they are
valued at the firm. ✔✔True
To create a strategic total rewards plan, you need to understand all of the following except:
✔✔Benefits
Base pay includes: ✔✔Salary or hourly wages
Team performance: ✔✔Comprises the collective actions of groups of employees
Total Reward Systems do not need to be reviewed to ensure that they are not penalizing such OCBs
and instead provide a degree of encouragement for those helpful behaviors. ✔✔False
Organizational performance includes all but: ✔✔Employee satisfaction
Employee perception of the organization has potential to lead to turnover and performance.
✔✔True
Managing total rewards is an art and a science. ✔✔True
A business strategy is ✔✔The collection of decisions, approaches, and activities that allow an
organization to compete and win
A cost leadership strategy is: ✔✔Having a lower-cost product or service at the highest priority
throughout its processes
A differentiation strategy is: ✔✔Placing a high priority on providing innovative, exceptional, and
high-quality products and/or services to customers
Placing a high priority on providing innovative, exceptional, and high-quality products and/or
services to customers ✔✔When an organization chooses a small and segmented market and
competes only in that small arena
A hybrid strategy is: ✔✔A combination of any of the differentiation, niche, or cost-leadership
strategies
Human resource strategy is: ✔✔The policies, practices, and systems that manage the interface
between the organization and its employees in order to enable long-term organizational
performance
Which of the following is not a function of Human Resources?
Recruiting
Risk Management
Performance Management
Human Resource Information System ✔✔Risk M
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