WGU C236 OA Questions & Answers
Which two approaches apply to internal reward alignment? - ✔✔Job-based approach
Individual-based approach
Which provision applies if a job is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act? -
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WGU C236 OA Questions & Answers
Which two approaches apply to internal reward alignment? - ✔✔Job-based approach
Individual-based approach
Which provision applies if a job is covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act? - ✔✔Employees
who work more than 40 hours in a week must be paid time and a half for each hour they work
over the 40 hours.
What is the relationship among laws regarding pay? - ✔✔The benefit to employees dictates
which law is followed.
What is merit pay? - ✔✔Annual increase based on past performance
The CEO of a web development company gives employees a lot of freedom to develop new
applications, pays employees by the hour, and allows employees to work as needed to develop
applications. Because of this approach, the payroll costs vary quite a bit. The CEO would like to
get costs under control and make payroll costs more stable. Which approach can be used to bring
payroll costs under control and make them more stable in this situation? - ✔✔Transition
employees from an hourly pay model to a salaried pay model
Which compensation method is an annual pay increase based on past performance that is added
to an employee's base compensation? - ✔✔Merit pay
An employee has worked for the same company in two locations over the course of 20 years in
Europe and North America. The employee has been trained as an international trade specialist
and has been promoted to manager of international operations. Which pay basis should be used
to compensate this employee? - ✔✔Competency-based pay
A company implemented actions to improve its return on investment on human capital. The
company wants to be the premier employer in the state. The first step was giving more rewards
for jobs compared to its competitors. Which type of reward system is this company using? -
✔✔Relative
At which step in job analysis do employers determine the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of a
job? - ✔✔Interview incumbents
An employer has several job incumbents come together to analyze a job. Which job analysis
method is used in this scenario? - ✔✔Panel interview
What is the next step in the job analysis after identifying the job and observing the workplace? -
✔✔Interview incumbents
A human resources professional at a large law firm needs to fill an accountant position. The job
description provides information about the compensation range, firm location, number of
employees in the company, minimal qualifications, and company values. Which part of the job
description did the human resources professional fail to include? - ✔✔The job content
To what does internal reward alignment refer? - ✔✔It refers to how an employee's rewards
compare to rewards received by others in the organization.
Workers in a small manufacturing company are currently paid whatever the CEO feels is
appropriate. The company's new compensation specialist intends to determine the relative worth
or value of each job in the company as part of setting a new salary scale. Which human resource
activity will this compensation specialist be conducting? - ✔✔A job evaluation
An employee is assigned the task of designing the job-value structure at his company. The
employee has defined which jobs are within the organization and how they are related. What is
the next step in defining the job-value structure? - ✔✔Determining job importance
Which type of market gives job seekers more negotiation power than employers? - ✔✔Labordriven
A company that produces poker chips intends to benchmark its rewards system. Which method
should be used to select the benchmark in this scenario? - ✔✔Benchmark competitors
Which type of market gives job seekers more power in negotiating terms of employment? -
✔✔Labor-driven
A manager is confronted by an employee who says she is thinking about a job offer from another
company. Subsequently, the manager wants to collect verifiable data on what competing
organizations are paying so the organization can match up with the market. From where can the
manager collect this data? - ✔✔Bureau of Labor Statistics
Which challenge to market analysis is present if a company expands into an international market
that has marginally trained workers? - ✔✔Inaccurate data
How can central tendency in compensation be used to improve a market analysis? - ✔✔By
finding the single number that represents how many people are paid
What is the foundation of external reward positioning in an organization's overall compensation
program? - ✔✔Reward surveys
What is the definition of a leading market rate strategy? - ✔✔The organization provides more of
a reward than its competitors.
A firm is trying to determine what wage it needs to offer in order to attract qualified applicants
when hiring several new employees. The firm has collected the following data on the supply of
labor and estimates the number of applications it would receive as well as the number of
employees it would like to hire at each wage.
Wage #QualifiedJobApps #ofEmpFirmHire
$20,000 10 10
$25,000 12 9
$30,000 18 8
$35,000 21 7
$40,000 27 6
$45,000 30 5
$50,000 36 4
$55,000 45 3
$60,000 50 2
The firm wants to pay as little as possible and still get a minimum of two applicants for each
person it actually hires. Which wage should the firm offer based on this data? - ✔✔$30,000
A company uses a series of pay grades to set salaries which characterize the firm's pay grade
system.
PayGrd AnnualSalRange AvActualPay MaxPayEarned
1 $10,000-$20,000 $12,000 $18,000
2 $15,000-$35,000 $23,000 $34,000
3 $30,000-$60,000 $41,000 $56,000
4 $50,000-$80,000 $62,000 $73,000
5 $70,000-$120,000 $94,000 $115,000
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