QUESTION 1
Some workers are being paid above their pay range and then they get their wage rate frozen at their current rate of pay until salary scales catch up. What is this practice is called?
green-circling
red-circling
merit pay reduction
conservative pay reduction
1 points
QUESTION 2
Functional job analysis was pioneered in the United States in the 1930s and is the precursor to the Canadian National Occupational Classification system.
True
False
QUESTION 3
Which method of job analysis focuses on the behaviours that make up a job and uses job elements to describe work activities?
Position Analysis Questionnaire
Interviews
Observation
Functional Job Analysis
QUESTION 4
A job specification is summary of the duties, responsibilities, and reporting relationships pertaining to a particular job.
QUESTION 5
What is one problem with using the ranking/paired job evaluation method?
It is time consuming.
It is not acceptable to pay equity commissions.
It is not acceptable to employment equity commissions.
It cannot address external market equity.
QUESTION 6
What are the three main reasons for conducting job evaluations?
to decrease wage costs, to create job families, and to create pay equity
to control wage costs, to create equitable pay structures, and to create employment equity
to control wage costs, to create equitable pay structures, and to create the perception of an equitable pay system among participants
to increase wage costs, to create equitable pay structures, and to create pay equity
QUESTION 7
In 2018, Canada passed pay equity legislation that applies to all employers in Canada.
QUESTION 8
A job description is a summary of the employee qualifications required to perform the duties for a given job.
QUESTION 9
What is the major benefit for the ranking method of job analysis?
It creates a series of grade descriptions.
It creates relative equal intervals between job classifications.
It incorporates market data.
QUESTION 10
What occurs to the female job class if the percentage of secretaries in that job class changes from 95 percent to 30 percent?
It becomes a new job class.
It becomes a male job class.
It remains a female job class.
It becomes a gender neutral job class.
QUESTION 11
Why might using job descriptions for job evaluation purposes prove problematic?
Companies simply do not keep wage rates updated.
The dynamic nature of the general environment creates a situation whereby job duties change without human resources departments noticing it.
Creating and maintaining job descriptions is not a laborious process.
The output created by the job analysis process yields poor results.
QUESTION 12
What is a valid reason to re-evaluate jobs?
A new member joins the committee.
The compensation-level strategy changes.
A new performance system is implemented.
There is a high level of appeals.
QUESTION 13
What is the first step in most pay equity processes?
analyze gender data
determine what rules and laws apply
review compensation
analyze and compare jobs
QUESTION 14
Which term refers to an organization that gives an employee the ability to appeal a decision of the job evaluation committee?
procedural justice
distributional justice
organizational justice
grievance system
QUESTION 15
What is the observation method of job analysis well-suited for?
jobs that have a short work cycle
jobs with a long work cycle
minimum wage jobs
QUESTION 16
Which term refers to the relative value of different jobs as determined by knowledgeable individuals?
the proxy method
PAQ analysis
paired comparison method
the ranking method
QUESTION 17
Once an organization has posted its pay equity plan, it has met its legal responsibility under the legislation and no further action is required.
QUESTION 18
Which job evaluation category uses human judgement as the determining factor?
whole job
factor comparison
statistical/policy capturing
point-factor management analysis
QUESTION 19
ABC Inc. is a new organization planning to launch a call centre in the next six months. You have been tasked with creating detailed job descriptions for several operational roles in the call centre. Which information collection method would you likely rely on to gather job information?
utility analysis
functional job analysis
variable analysis
data analysis
QUESTION 20
What is a primary problem of job analysis process?
creating too many job families
analyzing the jobholder not the job
having a committee
professional designations