Exam 11: Establishing Strategic Pay Plans

While laws exist to protect against discrimination in compensation based on gender and age,no law protects against such discrimination against persons with disabilities.

Performance-based pay is more popular than time-based pay among most employers in the U.S.

What are the two primary ways to make direct financial payments to employees? How does compensation for managers or professionals differ from compensation for clerical or production workers at a firm?

Which of the following gives employees the right to organize,bargain collectively,and engage in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining?

An advantage of the job classification method is that the objective nature of the system makes it easy to write the class and grade descriptions.

Because the minimum wage is set by the Fair Labor Standards Act,there is no variation from state to state in the minimum wage paid to hourly workers.

Portability rights refer to an employee's ability to transfer his or her vested rights from one organization to another.

According to the court system,the test that distinguishes an independent contractor from an employee is whether or not the firm provides the worker with health insurance benefits.

Large corporations are more likely than small businesses to use a market-based approach to setting pay rates because it is easier for a large firm to conduct formal job evaluations..

Which of the following states that employees of one sex may not be paid wages at a rate lower than that paid to employees of the opposite sex for doing roughly equivalent work?