All Free Management Sciences MCQs with Answers

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  • A. selecting and grouping jobs
  • B. combining ratings
  • C. ranking jobs
  • D. getting job information

Explanation: When jobs are arranged or placed into clusters, the process is selecting and grouping jobs.

Correct answer: selecting and grouping jobs
  • A. person oriented
  • B. job oriented
  • C. tenure oriented
  • D. evaluation oriented

Explanation: Traditional compensation systems attach pay mainly to the job's duties, responsibilities, and evaluated worth, making them job-oriented.

Correct answer: job oriented
  • A. pay based on company's profit
  • B. pay based on company's stocks
  • C. pay based on time
  • D. pay based on competency

Explanation: When pay is based on what an employee can do rather than the job title or position held, it is competency-based pay.

Correct answer: pay based on competency
  • A. comparable worth
  • B. incomparable worth
  • C. definable worth
  • D. indefinable worth

Explanation: Comparable worth means providing equal pay for jobs requiring comparable skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions, even when…

Correct answer: comparable worth
  • A. non direct financial payment
  • B. direct financial payments
  • C. compensation
  • D. pension benefits

Explanation: Incentives are payments directly linked to performance, output, or achievement, so they form part of direct financial compensation.

Correct answer: direct financial payments
  • A. classes
  • B. rank jobs
  • C. grades
  • D. combine ratings

Explanation: A grade in job classification groups jobs that have broadly similar difficulty, responsibility, and value.

Correct answer: grades
  • A. employee's family name
  • B. employee's performance
  • C. employee's competency
  • D. employee's equityMerchant Services & Payment Systems

Explanation: Modern skill- or competency-based pay focuses on the employee's knowledge, skills, and capabilities rather than merely the job title.

Correct answer: employee's competency
  • A. fine-time pay rates
  • B. group similar jobs
  • C. price each pay grade
  • D. conduct salary survey

Explanation: A salary survey supplies external market information needed before assigning competitive pay rates.

Correct answer: conduct salary survey
  • A. salaries
  • B. bonuses
  • C. promotion
  • D. shopping discountsJobs

Explanation: Managers and executives generally receive fixed salaries for performing their roles, although bonuses may be added as performance…

Correct answer: salaries
  • A. pay for knowledge
  • B. skill-based pay
  • C. time based pay
  • D. Both A and B

Explanation: Pay-for-knowledge rewards employees for acquiring relevant knowledge, while skill-based pay rewards the skills they develop and apply.

Correct answer: Both A and B
  • A. job description curve
  • B. salary curve
  • C. job evaluation curve
  • D. wage curve

Explanation: A wage curve shows the relationship between the relative value of jobs, usually measured by job evaluation points, and the average wages…

Correct answer: wage curve
  • A. non direct payments
  • B. incentives
  • C. direct payments
  • D. salary increments

Explanation: Discounts on air tickets and bus fares are employee benefits provided indirectly rather than as cash wages or salary increments.

Correct answer: non direct payments
  • A. time based pay
  • B. performance based pay
  • C. promotion
  • D. salary increments

Explanation: When payment depends on the number of units produced, earnings are linked to output or performance rather than time worked.

Correct answer: performance based pay
  • A. equity survey
  • B. market survey
  • C. salary survey
  • D. motivation surveyUrdu Mcqs

Explanation: A salary survey compares the salaries paid by different employers for similar jobs, helping an organisation judge whether its pay is…

Correct answer: salary survey
  • A. unspecified job descriptionCompensation & Benefits
  • B. lesser range of job
  • C. only one type of job
  • D. wide range of jobs

Explanation: Broad banding combines many narrow pay grades into a small number of broad bands, with each band covering a wide range of jobs.

Correct answer: wide range of jobs
  • A. point method
  • B. alternative ranking method
  • C. aligned reward strategy
  • D. job classification

Explanation: The point method is quantitative because jobs are scored on compensable factors such as skill, responsibility, effort, and working…

Correct answer: point method
  • A. evaluating pay grades
  • B. evaluating pay scales
  • C. benchmarking jobs
  • D. evaluating internal equityStrategic Planning

Explanation: Benchmarking jobs begins with selected reference or anchor jobs whose pay and value are known, then places other jobs in relation to them.

Correct answer: benchmarking jobs
  • A. mission
  • B. strategic plan
  • C. vision
  • D. company's plan

Explanation: Communication and employee participation are normally included in the company plan because they describe how the organisation will involve…

Correct answer: company's plan
  • A. performance management process
  • B. high performance work system
  • C. less performance work system
  • D. quantitative job evaluation

Explanation: A competency-oriented pay plan fits the performance-management process because it rewards competencies that employees can develop and…

Correct answer: performance management process
  • A. skills
  • B. accountability
  • C. knowledge
  • D. efforts and responsibility

Explanation: The Hay system evaluates jobs through factors including know-how, problem-solving, and accountability; among the options, accountability…

Correct answer: accountability