The Answer to the Question of How Many Firms to Include

question 29

Multiple Choice

The answer to the question of how many firms to include in a pay survey is _____.

• A) there are no firm rules
• B) include at least one-hundred
• C) focus primarily on labor-market competitors
• D) the top 50 percentile of similar sized firms

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Definitions:

Discrimination

Unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.

Attitude

A psychological tendency expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favor or disfavor, which influences individuals' behavior and perceptions.

Cognition

The mental processes that are involved in acquiring, storing, retrieving, and using information and that include sensation, perception, imagery, concept formation, reasoning, decision making, problem solving, and language.

Foot-In-The-Door Technique

A persuasive strategy where a smaller request is made first to increase the likelihood of agreement to a larger request later.