Employee Benefits Questions

1. The human relations approach to management would recommend rewarding outstanding employee performance through:

a. piece rate compensation
b. incentive compensation
c. ** employee recognition **
d. gain sharing
e. stock options

2. An emergent compensation strategy differs from an articulated strategy in that the emergent strategy:
a. includes none of the decisions on pay techniques
b. is secondary to the training strategy
c. ** is inferred from the company's pattern of compensation decisions **
d. tends to be the same for all organizations in an industry
e. is revised on an annual basis

3. The wage associated with a specific job can be explained in part by:
a. the supply of people with the necessary skills
b. the demand for labor
c. relationships among jobs within an organization
d. societal norms
e. ** all of the above **

4. Fairness of the results produced by a pay structure is known as:
a. ** egalitarianism **
b. procedural justice
c. distributive justice
d. exchange value
e. social justice

5. Internal job structures are based on:
a. market wages
b. ** organization design and work flow **
c. level of compensation
d. just wages
e. what other employers are payin