Comp Exam 1

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physiological like value of work
intrinsic comp
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monetary and nonmonetary
extrinsic comp
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hourly or salary comp
base pay
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legally required benefits
 Promote worker safety and health
 Maintain family income
 Assist families in crisis
 Provide assistance in case of▪ Disability▪ Unemployment
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total compensation =
Wages/Salaries + Total+ Benefits
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 systematic process forgathering, documenting, and analyzing information to describe jobs. Job Duties, requirements, job context, working conditions. This is mainly a descriptive process.
job analysis
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 systematic process to recognize differences in the relative worth among a set of jobs and to establish pay differentials accordingly. This will have values attached to job responsibilities/qualifications and use numerical functions
job evaluation
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 Determined by employees’ credentials, job knowledge, and job performance
- organized levels of employee salaries divided by job type
pay structure
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pay level for the job
pay grade
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 built on grades,uses midpoint, minimum, andmaximum pay rates
pay range
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factors that lead to industry wage differentials
o Industry product market: less competition= higher wages
o Capital intensity- more capital intensive (heavy equipment) = higher wages
o Industry profitability
o unionization
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factors that lead to occupational wage differentials
o KSAs of a job
o When labor supply is higher than demand higher wages
o Geographic location
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calculate pay
salary =
salary/ pay periods per year
biweekly is 26
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weekly pay =
hours worked x wage
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o Compares the value o feach job within the same company against the rest of the jobs found within that company.
internal consistency
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job analysis
smallest step practical to subdivide any work activity
 Setting font size
element
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job analysis
one or more elements and is one of thedistinct activities that constitute logical andnecessary steps in the performance of work bythe worker. A task is created whenever humaneffort, physical or mental, is exerted toaccomplish a specific purpose
task
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job analysis
collection of tasksconstituting the total work assignment ofa single worker.
position
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job analysis
group of two or more positions thatcall for either similar worker characteristics or similarwork tasks
job family
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job analysis
group of jobs, found at more thanone establishment, in which a common set of tasks areperformed or are related in terms of similar objectives,methodologies, materials, products, worker actions, orworker characteristics.
occupation
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job description
statement conciselysummarizes the job with two to four descriptivestatements. This section usually indicateswhether the job incumbent receives supervisionand by whom
summary
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job description
describes the major workactivities
job duties
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job description
education, KSAs, andother qualifications individuals must possess toperform the job adequately
worker specifications
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o job characteristics bywhich companiesestablish relative payrates
compensible factors
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universal compensible factors
skills, responsibility, effort, working conditions
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job evals
usesmarket data to determine differencesin job worth
market based
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job evals
emphasizescompany’s internal value system byestablishing a hierarchy of internaljob worth; the point method is a job-content evaluation system
job content
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job evals
Evaluates jobs by comparing compensablefactors by assigning numerical values tocompensable factors that describe jobs, andthese values are summed as an indicator ofthe overall value for the job.•Compensable factors are weighted torepresent the relative importance
point method
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job evals
order all jobs from lowest to highestaccording to a single criterion
simple ranking
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job evals
committee membersassign a point to the job with the highest value. Thejob with the most points is ranked the highest; the job with thefewest points is ranked the lowest
paired comparison
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job eval
orders jobs by extremes.This ranking process begins by determining which job isthe most valuable, followed by determining which job isthe least valuable.
job alternations
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job eval
place jobs into categoriesbased on compensable factors. Public sectororganizations (e.g., civil service systems) useclassification systems most prevalently
classification
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o Adds to base pay on a nonrecurring basis
incentive pay
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incentive pay
employeesreceive payments for specific behavioralaccomplishments
o Behavioral encouragement
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incentive pay
employees receive bonuses forrecruitment of highly qualified employees
referral
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incentive pay
employees receive smallmonetary gifts for outstanding work or effortduring a reasonably short time period
spot bonus
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incentive pay
monetary awards given topromote recruitment and job offer acceptance
signing bonus
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incentive pay
reward workers forevery item produced over adesignated production standard
piecework
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incentive pay
award bonuses to managers when theymeet or exceed objectives based onsales, profit, production, or othermeasures for their division
management incentive
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a group ofemployees, usually a departmentor work unit, is rewarded forproductivity gains
gain sharing
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types of gain sharing
Scanlon, rucker, improshare
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improshare
Physically measure productivity, get done by a date
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goal of scanlon gain sharing
lower labor costs
want lower ratio
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scanlon ratio =
Labor costs/SVOP
SVOP= Sales value of production= sales revenue+ value of goods in inventory
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scanlon Break even labor cost =
ratio x svop
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ruckner plan=
o Value added/total employment costs
 Value added= Net Sales - (cost of materials, supplies,services rendered)
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goal of the rucker ratio
optimal performance and cost savings
want higher ratio
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