MGT 291 UPDATED EVALUATION EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The __________ Correct identifies financial and nonfinancial performance
measures and organizes them into a single model. - ✔✔balanced scorecard
✔✔Which is true of the evidence concerning the validity of the balanced scorecard
approach to performance management?
A. Most of the evidence is highly supportive
B. Most of the evidence is anecdotal in nature
C. Most of the evidence is rigorous and empirical - ✔✔Most of the evidence is anecdotal
in nature
✔✔Which of these is a major problem common to all individual performance rating
methods?
A. A tendency to be too harsh in the ratings
B. A tendency to rate most individuals at about the same level
C. They are extremely expensive to use - ✔✔A tendency to rate most individuals are
about the same level
, ✔✔Although some examples of this are job-related and enhance productivity, such as a
car and driver, they mostly seem to increase the status of their recipients and may thus
increase satisfaction and reduce turnover.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Perquisite
✔✔An employer's contribution to your retirement plan is an example of this.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Indirect compensation
✔✔When your work team comes up with an idea that saves the company at least
$5,000, your team gets $1,000 to share among the team members.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Incentive system
✔✔You want to ensure that your top executives are managing the company for the
long-haul, not chasing short-term profits at the expense of the long-term health of the
company. You want to tie their compensation to the company's return on equity and
share price appreciation.
A. Gain-sharing program
B. Long-term compensation
C. Profit-sharing plan - ✔✔Correct Long-term compensation
✔✔A reward system must take into account volatile _________ including inflation,
market conditions, and unemployment rates. - ✔✔economic issues
✔✔Stress - ✔✔A psychological response to demands where there is something at stake
and where coping with the demands taxes or exceeds a person's capacity or resources
✔✔Stressors - ✔✔demands that cause people to experience stress
✔✔Strains - ✔✔negative consequences that occur when demands tax or exceed a
person's capacity or resources
✔✔transnational theory of stress - ✔✔a theory that explains how stressful demands are
perceived and appraised, as well as how people respond to the perceptions and
appraisals
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔The __________ Correct identifies financial and nonfinancial performance
measures and organizes them into a single model. - ✔✔balanced scorecard
✔✔Which is true of the evidence concerning the validity of the balanced scorecard
approach to performance management?
A. Most of the evidence is highly supportive
B. Most of the evidence is anecdotal in nature
C. Most of the evidence is rigorous and empirical - ✔✔Most of the evidence is anecdotal
in nature
✔✔Which of these is a major problem common to all individual performance rating
methods?
A. A tendency to be too harsh in the ratings
B. A tendency to rate most individuals at about the same level
C. They are extremely expensive to use - ✔✔A tendency to rate most individuals are
about the same level
, ✔✔Although some examples of this are job-related and enhance productivity, such as a
car and driver, they mostly seem to increase the status of their recipients and may thus
increase satisfaction and reduce turnover.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Perquisite
✔✔An employer's contribution to your retirement plan is an example of this.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Indirect compensation
✔✔When your work team comes up with an idea that saves the company at least
$5,000, your team gets $1,000 to share among the team members.
Indirect compensation
Incentive system
Perquisites - ✔✔Incentive system
✔✔You want to ensure that your top executives are managing the company for the
long-haul, not chasing short-term profits at the expense of the long-term health of the
company. You want to tie their compensation to the company's return on equity and
share price appreciation.
A. Gain-sharing program
B. Long-term compensation
C. Profit-sharing plan - ✔✔Correct Long-term compensation
✔✔A reward system must take into account volatile _________ including inflation,
market conditions, and unemployment rates. - ✔✔economic issues
✔✔Stress - ✔✔A psychological response to demands where there is something at stake
and where coping with the demands taxes or exceeds a person's capacity or resources
✔✔Stressors - ✔✔demands that cause people to experience stress
✔✔Strains - ✔✔negative consequences that occur when demands tax or exceed a
person's capacity or resources
✔✔transnational theory of stress - ✔✔a theory that explains how stressful demands are
perceived and appraised, as well as how people respond to the perceptions and
appraisals
