Variable Pay - Improving Performance with
Variable Pay Exam Study Guide Solutions
Primary Elements of Compensation - ANSWER✔✔-Fixed and variable pay
rewards
Market-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their value relative
to the labor market
Performance-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their sustained
performance over time
Skill-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their acquisition of
new skills and competences
Fixed pay rewards are based on - ANSWER✔✔-Market-base; Performance-
base and Skill-base
Fixed pay rewards are based on - ANSWER✔✔-Employee's value
Variable pay rewards for - ANSWER✔✔-Accomplishments and results
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,Variable pay rewards - ANSWER✔✔-Organizational, group or individual
results
Performance-based compensation - ANSWER✔✔-Serves as a pay
differentiator between those who achieve results and those who do not
The goal of variable pay - ANSWER✔✔-To improve organizational
performance
Business strategy - ANSWER✔✔-The broad framework of principles and
approaches that guide the day-to-day decisions affecting the business
Business strategy - ANSWER✔✔-Supports the organization's mission,
goals and objectives
Organizations place primary focus on three strategies - ANSWER✔✔-
Operational excellence; Product/service leadership and Customer intimacy
Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy includes a
combination of price, quality, dependability and ease of purchase that
competitors cannot match. The corporate culture typically strives to
minimize waste and reward efficiency
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,Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
typically strives to minimize waste and reward efficiency
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily an
innovation-based strategy
Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily a price/cost-
based strategy
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy focuses
on innovation, product development and market exploitation.
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
encourages imagination and a mind-set driven by the prospect of creating
the future
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-Organizations that
use this strategy offer products and services that expand performance
boundries
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily a solutions-based
strategy
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, Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy focuses on
creating results for carefully selected customers (making them successful)
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
encourages deep and lasting relationships with customers
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-Organizations that use this
strategy build bonds with targeted customers; they meet or exceed
customer needs to build customer loyalty
Business objectives - ANSWER✔✔-The link between an organization's
business strategy and the specific actions or behaviors employees must
take
Business objectives: Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-
Product quality; Operational efficiency improvement; process
improvement and cost reduction
Business objectives: Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-
Market share/market penetration; Product development and Time from
innovation to market
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Variable Pay Exam Study Guide Solutions
Primary Elements of Compensation - ANSWER✔✔-Fixed and variable pay
rewards
Market-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their value relative
to the labor market
Performance-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their sustained
performance over time
Skill-based - ANSWER✔✔-Rewards individuals for their acquisition of
new skills and competences
Fixed pay rewards are based on - ANSWER✔✔-Market-base; Performance-
base and Skill-base
Fixed pay rewards are based on - ANSWER✔✔-Employee's value
Variable pay rewards for - ANSWER✔✔-Accomplishments and results
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,Variable pay rewards - ANSWER✔✔-Organizational, group or individual
results
Performance-based compensation - ANSWER✔✔-Serves as a pay
differentiator between those who achieve results and those who do not
The goal of variable pay - ANSWER✔✔-To improve organizational
performance
Business strategy - ANSWER✔✔-The broad framework of principles and
approaches that guide the day-to-day decisions affecting the business
Business strategy - ANSWER✔✔-Supports the organization's mission,
goals and objectives
Organizations place primary focus on three strategies - ANSWER✔✔-
Operational excellence; Product/service leadership and Customer intimacy
Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy includes a
combination of price, quality, dependability and ease of purchase that
competitors cannot match. The corporate culture typically strives to
minimize waste and reward efficiency
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,Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
typically strives to minimize waste and reward efficiency
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily an
innovation-based strategy
Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily a price/cost-
based strategy
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy focuses
on innovation, product development and market exploitation.
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
encourages imagination and a mind-set driven by the prospect of creating
the future
Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-Organizations that
use this strategy offer products and services that expand performance
boundries
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-Primarily a solutions-based
strategy
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, Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-This strategy focuses on
creating results for carefully selected customers (making them successful)
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-The corporate culture
encourages deep and lasting relationships with customers
Strategy -Customer intimacy - ANSWER✔✔-Organizations that use this
strategy build bonds with targeted customers; they meet or exceed
customer needs to build customer loyalty
Business objectives - ANSWER✔✔-The link between an organization's
business strategy and the specific actions or behaviors employees must
take
Business objectives: Strategy -Operational excellence - ANSWER✔✔-
Product quality; Operational efficiency improvement; process
improvement and cost reduction
Business objectives: Strategy -Product/service leadership - ANSWER✔✔-
Market share/market penetration; Product development and Time from
innovation to market
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