EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What guides the design of all total rewards programs?

Question2: At a company communications event, several employees were awarded certificates for their roles in improving customer service. Later, their manager noticed some of the certificates in the trash bin. Which essential element for success did the manager miss?

Question3: A medical benefits plan provision ensuring that the correct plan is paying expenses when the member is covered under more than one plan is known as what?

Question4: To ensure compliance, pay decisions should be made based on which of the following?

Question5: Which of the following statements best describes workplace flexibility as a deeply embedded cultural strategic advantage for an organization?

Question6: Performance can be measured most objectively through which of the following methods?

Question7: Which of the following is a type of variable pay?

Question8: Which statement below most accurately describes a company that is using a total rewards approach?

Question9: Why are lump-sum increases generally used?

Question10: Which of the following is a true statement about the creative use of paid and unpaid time off category in the work-life portfolio?

Question11: Why is understanding the organization's business strategy key to planning for future human capital needs?

Question12: What type of pay increase is given when an organization finds that its compensation program is behind competitive market rates?

Question13: How should learning opportunities to accomplish a career plan best be determined?

Question14: Which of the following is primarily focused on giving special attention to employee actions, efforts, behavior or performance?

Question15: Why should the annual development and career opportunities discussion take place separately from the performance discussion?

Question16: In general, what should occur first in the performance management process?

Question17: What is a shared leave program?

Question18: What does a total rewards strategy identify?

Question19: It has been noted that an employee learns rapidly during the first few years on the job, after which time the rate of learning begins to slow. How can organizations address this in their pay programs?

Question20: What is the final result of the job evaluation process?

Question21: Who is generally responsible for articulating the HR strategy?

Question22: Upon which criterion are step increases typically based?

Question23: The number of pay structures in an organization is most likely to be influenced by which of the following?

Question24: Which of the following best describes severance allowances?

Question25: Which of the following may be a limitation of a government-sponsored health care program?

Question26: Which of the following is the best definition of variable pay?

Question27: Step-rate increase programs provide employees the opportunity to receive two regular pay increases at which points?

Question28: What type of performance standard specifies the steps necessary to complete a job duty?

Question29: After revising or enhancing total rewards programs, what should the TR practitioner do to ensure business alignment?

Question30: What is the third component to pay for performance systems?

Question31: Which of the following is an organization's statement about what it wants to become?

Question32: An employee whose pay is at 75% range penetration is most likely to be in which of the following circumstances?

Question33: What type of equity incentive gives employees the right to purchase company shares at a specified price?

Question34: When building a job worth hierarchy, which step involves the systematic, formal study of the duties and responsibilities that comprise job content?

Question35: Which type of variable pay is best described by this statement: Criteria are discretionary and often defined in broad terms such as "exceptional customer service"?

Question36: What is the best example of a coaching or mentoring opportunity?

Question37: How should learning opportunities to enhance a current job best be determined?

Question38: Which statement is most accurate regarding the effect of taxation on the benefits that employers offer?

Question39: How do commissions typically differ from annual incentives for non-executive employees?

Question40: Cash compensation is a reward intended to provide what type of motivation?

Question41: Which statement is most accurate regarding organizational performance?

Question42: What typically happens when employees continually upgrade and build new skills?

Question43: Work-life effectiveness includes a philosophy that actively supports which of the following?

Question44: Well-executed recognition programs create a more positive work environment through which of the following means?

Question45: Which of the following is an example of a flexible work arrangement?

Question46: Which of the following is a type of variable pay?

Question47: What is the most common form of recognition?