Human Resources Questions Confirmation

An advantage of quantitative job analyses such as the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) over conventional methods (interviews) are:

a. they are faster
b. they may be more subjective
c. they can collect more data
d. ** they minimize the subjective and judgmental aspect of the analysis **
e. they involve more people and are more time consuming and expensive

An alphabetical index of job descriptions supplied electronically by the US Department of Labor, provided as a public service, is referred to as:
a. Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ)
b. Functional Job Analysis (FJA)
c. ** Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) **
d. Revised Handbook for Analyzing Jobs
e. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

The Americans with Disabilities Act is concerned with:
a. the essential elements or essential functions of a job
b. aspects of the job which are done on an occasional basis
c. to whom the employee reports
d. ** hardships the employee may experience on the job **
e. the cost of conducting a job analysis

A contingency approach to pay:

a. will be more effective than an articulated approach
b. ** fits pay decisions to an organization's circumstances **
c. will not work across multiple business units
d. specifies what business the organization should compete in
e. specifies high base pay and risk sharing