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Which of the following is NOT one of the key activities to create market competitive pay systems?

Which group of contingent workers is characterized by the BLS as working fewer than 35 hours a week?

Which pay system is most widely used in America today?

This represents the relationship between a company’s valuation of jobs based on job evaluation and the valuation of jobs within the external market as assessed by compensation surveys.

Among the various performance appraisal techniques, this appraisal system is the most defensible in court because it is based on actual observable job performance behaviors.

In addition to the guaranteed hourly pay rate, Monica receives incentives for every item produced over the designated production standard. What kind of incentive plan is used in this situation?

In one or two short paragraphs, compare person-focused pay systems with job-based pay systems. Can the two systems ever coexist?

In this person-focused pay model, employees are rewarded for increasing their skills within a single job family, even if the skills do NOT build on each other.

Briefly describe the five steps to constructing a pay structure. You do not need to provide detailed examples of each step, but you do need to identify the step and in a sentence or two describe what that step entails.  Note: I reversed steps 2 and 3 from the textbooks version. For maximum credit you should identify the steps in the order I presented them. 

(MA) When doing a strategic analysis, which of the following represent EXTERNAL factors in which we are interested?