PHCLE TEST PAPER ALL ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔Compensation Study - ✔✔Process of analyzing current pay structures and practices
to ensure external market equity and that internal job worth mirrors the organization's
market and strategy.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Are not "bad" or "exceptional" employees
✔✔SWOT Analysis - ✔✔A method used to understand the internal strengths and
weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats of a project, process, or
organization.
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔An employment decision, practice, policy, or tool that
intentionally discriminates against a protected class based on race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin.
✔✔Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) - ✔✔An across-the-board base pay inflation
designed to align with increases in the cost of living.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Generally do not give discretionary effort
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔On average, give their employers 1.0 days work for
each day of pay
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - ✔✔Employment practices that ensure
nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, physical or
mental ability, medical condition, age, or genetic information.
✔✔Deductible - ✔✔What you are required to pay out-of-pocket up to a certain amount
before an insurance company begins to pay on a health insurance claim.
✔✔Transactional HR - ✔✔Processes that support the day-to-day activities of the people
function through all stages of the employment relationship. Tend to be largely reactive.
, ✔✔Values - ✔✔The traits or actions valued by the organization.
✔✔Equity gap - ✔✔The difference between the rate students from low-income families
or students of color are educated by excellent educators and the rate at which other
students are educated by excellent educators.
✔✔Direct Compensation - ✔✔A monetary incentive or reward.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Can "flip" categories at times
✔✔Vision - ✔✔Description of the state the organization wishes to achieve. Provides a
guiding image for the future.
✔✔Funneling - ✔✔A hiring process that quickly sorts through applicants using low-cost,
low-effort methods in the preliminary stages to help schools preserve resources for use
in screening and hiring the most promising candidate for a position.
✔✔Indirect Compensation - ✔✔Pay received in the form of services and benefits (i.e.,
pensions, health insurance, vacations).
✔✔Actively Disengaged Employees - ✔✔Undo the good work of individuals in the other
two categories
✔✔Actively Disengaged Employees - ✔✔On average, give their employers .5 days work
for a day of pay
✔✔Groupthink - ✔✔A psychological phenomenon characterized by members of a group
reaching consensus on a decision (e.g., hiring a job candidate) without thoroughly
exploring all arguments/options to minimize conflict.
✔✔Job Evaluation - ✔✔A process for determining the relative compensatory value of a
job in an organization.
✔✔Feasibility Analysis - ✔✔Detailed analysis to determine whether a program should
be implemented or continued.
✔✔Fiscal Sustainability - ✔✔Ability to maintain funding streams for a program or
offering.
✔✔Inter-Rater Reliability - ✔✔The extent to which two or more individuals (coders,
raters, observers, etc.) agree (i.e., give consistent estimates of the same phenomenon).
SET A+
✔✔Compensation Study - ✔✔Process of analyzing current pay structures and practices
to ensure external market equity and that internal job worth mirrors the organization's
market and strategy.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Are not "bad" or "exceptional" employees
✔✔SWOT Analysis - ✔✔A method used to understand the internal strengths and
weaknesses as well as the external opportunities and threats of a project, process, or
organization.
✔✔Disparate Treatment - ✔✔An employment decision, practice, policy, or tool that
intentionally discriminates against a protected class based on race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin.
✔✔Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) - ✔✔An across-the-board base pay inflation
designed to align with increases in the cost of living.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Generally do not give discretionary effort
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔On average, give their employers 1.0 days work for
each day of pay
✔✔Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) - ✔✔Employment practices that ensure
nondiscrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, color, national origin, physical or
mental ability, medical condition, age, or genetic information.
✔✔Deductible - ✔✔What you are required to pay out-of-pocket up to a certain amount
before an insurance company begins to pay on a health insurance claim.
✔✔Transactional HR - ✔✔Processes that support the day-to-day activities of the people
function through all stages of the employment relationship. Tend to be largely reactive.
, ✔✔Values - ✔✔The traits or actions valued by the organization.
✔✔Equity gap - ✔✔The difference between the rate students from low-income families
or students of color are educated by excellent educators and the rate at which other
students are educated by excellent educators.
✔✔Direct Compensation - ✔✔A monetary incentive or reward.
✔✔Not Engaged Employees - ✔✔Can "flip" categories at times
✔✔Vision - ✔✔Description of the state the organization wishes to achieve. Provides a
guiding image for the future.
✔✔Funneling - ✔✔A hiring process that quickly sorts through applicants using low-cost,
low-effort methods in the preliminary stages to help schools preserve resources for use
in screening and hiring the most promising candidate for a position.
✔✔Indirect Compensation - ✔✔Pay received in the form of services and benefits (i.e.,
pensions, health insurance, vacations).
✔✔Actively Disengaged Employees - ✔✔Undo the good work of individuals in the other
two categories
✔✔Actively Disengaged Employees - ✔✔On average, give their employers .5 days work
for a day of pay
✔✔Groupthink - ✔✔A psychological phenomenon characterized by members of a group
reaching consensus on a decision (e.g., hiring a job candidate) without thoroughly
exploring all arguments/options to minimize conflict.
✔✔Job Evaluation - ✔✔A process for determining the relative compensatory value of a
job in an organization.
✔✔Feasibility Analysis - ✔✔Detailed analysis to determine whether a program should
be implemented or continued.
✔✔Fiscal Sustainability - ✔✔Ability to maintain funding streams for a program or
offering.
✔✔Inter-Rater Reliability - ✔✔The extent to which two or more individuals (coders,
raters, observers, etc.) agree (i.e., give consistent estimates of the same phenomenon).
