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1. At the beginning of the quarter, Marcus sat down with his manager and set three goals for the next three months. The achievement of each goal will depend on Marcus. No one else in his work group can affect the work toward the goal. Which advantage of individual incentives does this illustrate?
a. easy to evaluate employee’s effect on team
b. ability to match rewards to employee desires
c. promotes the link between performance and results
d. may motivate less productive employees to work harder
2. Mallory would like to attract better workers and enhance her organization’s employment brand. Adopting a(n) ________ organizational philosophy on compensation could help her achieve her goals.
a. at-the-market
b. above-the-market
c. pay for longevity
d. pay secrecy
3. One reason for re-evaluating social security is because
a. there have been changes in the lifespan of the retiree population.
b. congress did not intend the law to cover both men and women since men were primarily the wage earners when the law first passed in 1935.
c. the law was written to have a re-evaluation in the new millennium.
d. the global economy affected the value of the retirement dollar.
4. In September, OSHA issued six serious citations to a woodworking company for exposing employees to hazards from paint and lacquer vapors and for improperly stored flammable materials. Proposed penalties were $7,250. In December, OSHA proposed additional penalties of $27,800 because the company did not provide timely documentation that the issues had been corrected and a follow-up inspection found three uncorrected hazards, three hazards that had been allowed to re-occur, and a new hazard. The December proposed penalty is for which type of violation?
a. willful
b. failure to abate
c. other than serious
d. repeated
5. Under OSHA employees have a right to all of the following except:
a. to refuse to be interviewed by an inspector.
b. to have a company representative present during any interview.
c. to have working conditions free from unnecessary hazards.
d. to file a complaint about hazardous working conditions.
e. to report hazardous conditions to their supervisor.
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