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1. Research by Gerhart and Milkovich (1990) on financial incentives and company performance found:
a. the level of base pay had a stronger impact on organizational performance than the variable portion of pay.
b. individual incentive pay had no bearing on company performance.
c. the variable portion of pay had a stronger impact on organizational performance than the level of base pay.
d. employees were dissatisfied with pay being linked to performance.
e. None of the above
2. At Acme Corp. employees are paid a constant rate based on the number of widgets they produce per month. This would best be described as what type of compensation plan?
a. gain-sharing plan
b. commission plan
c. merit pay
d. skill-based pay plan
e. straight piece-rate system
3. A market pay line typically includes_____on the horizontal (x) axis, and_____on the vertical (y) axis.
a. salary survey data; job analysis data
b. marginal product of labor; marginal revenue of labor
c. job evaluation points; compensable factors
d. salaries paid by relevant competitors (external competitive data); job evaluation points (internally aligned structure)
e. job evaluation points (internally aligned structure); salaries paid by relevant competitors (external competitive data)
4. Research by Byron and Khazanchi (2012) on rewards and creative performance found:
a. that creativity-contingent rewards have a negative impact on creative performance.
b. that all rewards have a negative impact on creative performance.
c. that completion-contingent (for completing a task, without an explicit creativity criterion) rewards have a positive impact on creative performance.
d. that performance-contingent (without an explicit creativity criterion) rewards have a positive impact on creative performance.
e. that creativity-contingent rewards tend to increase creative performance, whereas completion-contingent rewards have a negative effect on creative performance.
5. Research suggests that citizenship performance consists of which of the following three factors or categories?
a. job-specific activities, quantity of work, and quality of work
b. interpersonal deviance, organizational deviance, and production deviance
c. absolute performance, relative performance, and objective performance
d. personal support, organizational support, and conscientious initiative
e. task performance, citizenship performance, and counterproductive performance