Compensation vs. Risks of Online Job Postings



Compensation vs. Risks of Online Job Postings

Summary

In case an employee gets injured on the job, your employer is responsible for paying workers' compensation benefits. Included are reasonable and necessary medical expenses and a portion of wages lost during the period of time that cannot work. If the injury is permanent, is entitled to be paid an additional amount of money compensation for your permanent injury. A workers' compensation case remains open for life. This means that the insurance compensation is responsible for all accounts payable for any future medical and lost time periods in the future that are a direct result of the original injury in the workplace or relapse or aggravation of the injury. His case remains open with the insurance company to charge when returned to work and are no longer receiving medical treatment or workers' compensation benefits (Fitzenberger, & Wilke, 2010).

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Methodology for the Research Study

Participant

Fifteen students (N=15) from the Psychology class were randomly assigned to our experiment.

Materials

All participants were asked to fill out the questionnaires which contained two sections. In the first section, four compensation values were listed in each question and they were a)$10/hour, b)12/hour, c)15/hour, and d)17/hour. Participants have to choose one of these answers according to the online job descriptions that we provided. In other word, participants would choose the right amount of compensation to indicate how much compensation, in $/hour, they are willing get in order to consider that job posting. After that, the second section we had created a nominal scale that letting every participant to rate the risk of each posting, and the scale was categorized to very love risk, low risk, neutral, high risk, and ...