A.Opportunities for career advancement are important to employees in their decisions to either join or leave an organization.

B.If employees believe their skills will fall behind their professional peers, they will be afraid to look for another job.

C.Obtaining and developing skills provides leverage for the employee to seek more compensation.

A.To elevate employees who are below the midpoint in the range

B.To make up for benefits not provided by the organization

C.To reward employees under short-term incentive plans

D.To control annual fixed costs from base pay adjustments

A.They may overlap with minimums and maximums falling within adjoining grades

B.They identify the actual compensation paid to each employee

C.They represent the difference between the midpoint and the maximum of a given salary grade

D.They include incentives that are paid out at certain times of the year

A.To defer compensation expenses to future reporting periods

B.To increase employee identification with the organization's success

C.To reward individual employees for some significant contribution

D.To achieve organizational cost savings through base pay reductions

A.Complying with local legislation and maintaining accurate records to prepare financial reports and tax documents

B.Making choices about spending based on expectations of performance

C.Increasing profitability of the business annually to maximize shareholder/owner value

D.Limiting spending to a fixed percentage of organizational revenue