Exam 12: The Benefit Determination Process

Though employer provided benefits cost less due to group rates,they are taxed the same as wages and salaries.

_____ is/are one of the most preferred benefits.

Various studies have found that only two specific benefits curtailed employee turnover: _____ and _____.

What are the major disadvantages of a flexible benefits package?

Most employers say that their primary benefits objective is to:

Which of the following benefits has been found to increase productivity in organizations?

All of the following except _____ are factors affecting employer choices of components of a benefits package.

_____ mandates 12 weeks of leave for all workers at companies that employ 50 or more people.

The only two benefits shown to reduce turnover are pensions and medical coverage.

The most widely used benefit survey is conducted by:

The biggest current trend in health care is market-based or customer-driven.

General Motors spends more than twice as much for employee health insurance as for the steel that goes into each car they produce.

For the past 15 years,health care costs have risen an average of nearly _____ percent per year.

Before World War II,hourly employees were given time off for holidays but without pay.

Which if the most popular empirical method of identifying individual preferences in benefits packages?

_____ allows employees who have resigned or were laid off to continue to purchase health insurance under their employer's plan.

What are some of the common cost-containment practices with regard to benefits administration?

Surveys show that the most highly valued benefit is:

What can administrators do to control the increasing benefits costs?

Which of the following would an employer be least likely to use if they sought to reduce benefit costs?