GR1 Online Practice Questions and Answers

An employee and his manager have decided that he will type reports with no more than one error per five pages. Which type of performance standard are they using?

A. Quality

B. Time

C. Process

What guides the design of all total rewards programs?

A. The human resources strategy

B. The business strategy

C. The business vision

D. The total rewards strategy.

Which statement is most accurate regarding the effect of taxation on the benefits that employers offer?

A. Taxation has no effect on employee benefits; employers offer benefits for competitive reasons only.

B. Taxation is the primary reason that employers offer benefits; in the absence of tax incentives, employers would be unlikely to offer them.

C. Taxation affects the level of benefits offered, the source of benefits and the employer/employee cost-sharing basis.

Which of the following are the two primary elements of benefits?

A. Mental health coverage and health care coverage

B. Pay for time not worked and income protection programs

C. Unemployment and disability

D. Defined contribution and defined benefits plans

Which of the following combines traditionally segregated time off and leave programs into one policy covering a single block of time?

A. Personal leave

B. Sabbatical

C. Severance allowances

D. Paid time off (PTO) bank.

Which of the following best describes severance allowances?

A. A portion of one's salary paid during reserve duty and military leave

B. A practice of paying a lump sum to employees during a company shutdown

C. A continuation of an employee's salary after termination

D. A continuation of a portion of an employee's salary to a beneficiary after the death of an employee

Which of the following benefits are usually offered at the discretion of the employer?

A. Retirement plans

B. Unemployment insurance

C. Social security programs

D. Disability (occupational).

What is continuing to contribute most to the current rise in the cost of benefits programs?

A. Rising salaries for support staff

B. Increasing cost of enterprise software systems

C. Increasing cost of communication

D. Rising costs for health care.

A company is sponsoring a diversity awareness fair for employees. Which category of work -life is the company trying to promote?

A. Caring for dependents

B. Culture change

C. Corporate citizenship

D. Internal sharing.

What is the most common form of recognition?

A. Trophies

B. Cash

C. Merchandise chosen from an award catalog

D. Verbal recognition