O & T
Performance Mgmt.
Pay
Benefits
EE Relations
100

Instilling in all employees prevailing attitudes, standards, values, and patterns of behaviour. 

What is socialization?

100

The simplest and most popular technique for appraising employee performance. 

What is a graphic rating scale?

100

The relative worth of jobs within a firm is determined by which method.  

What is job evaluation? 

100

The five government mandated benefits in Canada. 

What are (1) employment insurance (EI), (2) C/QPP, (3) workers' compensation, (4) paid time-off, (5) pay on termination of employment? 

100

The emotional and intellectual involvement of employees in their work, such as intensity, focus, and involvement in his or her job and organization. 

What is employee engagement? 

200

The state that results from the discrepancy between what the new employee expected from his or her new job and the realities of it. 

What is cognitive dissonance? 

200

A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is closely associated with which performance appraisal technique. 

What are narrative forms?

200

The job evaluation method that IDs compensable factors and the degree to which each factor is present in the job and calculates a value for each job.

What is the point method? 

200

The year Canada/Quebec Pension Plans (CPP/QPP) were introduced. 

What is 1966? 

200

The cost of turnover. 

What is 150 to 250 percent of salary? 

300

One of the most important and expensive assets of organizations.

What is a highly knowledgeable workforce?

300

The performance appraisal technique that combines the benefits of narrative, critical incidents, and quantified ratings by attaching a quantified scale with specific narrative examples of good or poor performance. 

What is behaviourally anchored rating scale method (BARS)?

300

The three stages in establishing pay rates.  

What are job evaluation, conducting salary surveys, and combining job evaluation and salary survey results. 

300

Workers' compensation is what type of insurance plan. 

What is no-fault? 

300

When a poor performing employees leaves an organization. 

What is functional turnover? 

400

The list of (1) specific duties and (2) KSAOs required on the job are used in determining the training required for performing the job are found in which two HR/job documents?

What are the job description and job specification? 

400

When supervisors tend to rate all employees either high or low?

What is strictness and leniency bias? 

400

Jobs of approximately the same value or importance, as determined by job evaluation are grouped into ________. 


What are pay grades? 

400

The main two reasons for increasing healthcare costs in Canada. 

What are increasing use of expensive new drugs and rising drug use by an ageing population.

400

Most common reason given for voluntary turnover.

What is a desire to find new challenges? 

500

Online training costs about ________ less than traditional classroom-based training.

What is 50%?  

500

The bedrock of performance management. 

What are ethics? 

500

The bias of when compensation specialists compare the wages they are evaluating to higher wages. 

What is upward bias? 

500

The leading cause of short- and long-term disability claims in Canada. 

What are mental health issues? 

500

The laws that require an employer to notify employees in the event that the employer decides to terminate employees without just cause. 

What is reasonable notice?