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WorldatWork C8 Business Acumen for Compensation Professional Exam Practice Test

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Business Acumen for Compensation Professional Questions and Answers

Question 1

When connecting with other business units, what best describes a reason why is it important to keep up to date on organizational challenges?

Options:

A.

Because you will be more informed when differences of opinion occur, lending more credibility to your position

B.

Because you can demonstrate your understanding of issues from multiple perspectives

C.

Because you will be able to explain the negative consequences of opposing your position

D.

Because stakeholders with diverse opinions tend to compromise when they are aware that others know their weaknesses

Question 2

Quarterly financial reports typically include data for a given quarter compared to what?

Options:

A.

The previous quarter

B.

The budget

C.

The same quarter in the previous year, plus the current six-month or nine-month cumulative comparables

D.

The aggregate performance of the same quarter in the previous three years

Question 3

What best describes an effective approach for balancing multiple priorities and perspectives regarding compensation?

Options:

A.

Being firm and uncompromising in your decision-making

B.

Representing your view with data and relating it to business results

C.

Finding a compromise that may not appease all stakeholders but does not give any one group or person everything they are seeking

D.

Giving priority to perspectives based on the job or influence level of the stakeholders

Question 4

You have been asked to develop a short-term incentive plan that motivates employees in business units to increase productivity. Your team has designed a plan that rewards managers and employees quarterly based on achievement against target on measures that should generate productivity increases that will self-fund the plan. When presenting the plan to senior management, what would be the best strategy to receive approval?

Options:

A.

Demonstrate how it is aligned to the rewards philosophy, principles and organizational business strategy

B.

Provide details on the plan design and measures and how they will be administered to employees at different levels

C.

Make the case that a self-funded plan poses no risk to the organization while creating the potential for significant gains

D.

Identify in advance the priorities of the various stakeholders and design your presentation to address any objections or perceptions they may have

Question 5

What question is answered by the organization’s mission statement?

Options:

A.

What direction will we take?

B.

How do we work?

C.

Why are we in business?

D.

How will we achieve our objectives?

Question 6

If employees have a significant impact on the bottom line, what type of pay mix is most appropriate?

Options:

A.

A varying mix depending on employee influence on goals to provide the necessary incentive to maximize profits

B.

100% variable pay to motivate all employees to maximize productivity and sales

C.

90/10 for the majority of employees (base/variable) to share in the company’s success with increased variable pay for management/executives to motivate employees to seek higher positions

D.

High base pay and low variable pay to ensure predictability of total compensation expense

Question 7

Who are you most likely to hear from if there are questions about an employee’s compensation?

Options:

A.

The employee

B.

A concerned co-worker

C.

The employee’s manager

D.

The employee’s department head

Question 8

Which of the following is the earnings available to equity owners after paying debt and taxes?

Options:

A.

EBIT

B.

EPS

C.

Net income

D.

Operating profit

Question 9

Assessment of current and future staffing needs should be based primarily on what?

Options:

A.

Compensation budgets only because staffing cannot exceed the funds available

B.

A combination of organizational goals and budget realities

C.

The consensus of HR management and line management estimates

D.

The opinions of senior leaders in the organization

Question 10

Your company has had a strong fiscal year with a 15% increase in net income over the prior fiscal year. Share prices are at an all time high. Working with Finance, you have arrived at a 2.5% merit increase budget for the next fiscal year, a smaller increase than the last fiscal year. Finance has indicated that some large capital expenditures will be needed next year, so the company needs to conserve resources. Additionally, Legal is in final negotiations on a lawsuit that may be very costly to the company. Word of the smaller increases has line management concerned that they will lose their best performers. Given all of these factors, what is your best course of action?

Options:

A.

Implement the merit increase budget as is because the anticipated financial obligations have made it necessary

B.

Meet with Finance and make a case for a larger merit increase budget because the loss of key talent will cost more over the long term than the savings from the smaller merit increases

C.

Gather the perspectives of all stakeholders, analyze their individual concerns and meet to determine whether a compromise solution is possible

D.

Recommend a reduction in force to eliminate poor performers, which will increase the merit budget by reducing headcount

Question 11

What is the most common term for the broad framework of principles and approaches that guide day-to-day decisions affecting the business, including how it positions itself in the market?

Options:

A.

The business plan

B.

The corporate objective

C.

The mission statement

D.

The competitive strategy

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