Job Evaluation Quiz

An internal job structure based on _____ refers to the skills required for the job, its duties, and its responsibilities.

• job content

• job value

• external market rates

• compensable factors

In the point method of evaluation, compensable factors do not communicate what is valued.

• True

• False

Which of the following is a characteristic of a benchmark job?

• Its contents are little known

• Its contents fluctuate frequently

• It is unique to a particular employer

• It employs a reasonable proportion of the workforce

The last step involved in the point method of job evaluation is determining the compensable factors.

• True

• False

Which of the following is an advantage of the ranking method of evaluation?

• It is fast, simple, and easy to explain

• It is best suited for a rapidly growing organization

• It makes the criteria for evaluating jobs explicit

• It does not require the evaluator to know about all jobs under study

Which of the following job evaluation methods is based on job class descriptions into which jobs are categorized?

• point method

• paired comparison method

• classification method

• alternation ranking method

The final result of the job analysis-job description-job evaluation process is a job structure, a hierarchy of work.

• True

• False