Job Evaluation - Features

Features

The purpose of job evaluation is to produce a defensive ranking of jobs on which a rational and acceptable pay structure can be built. The important features of job evaluation may be summarised thus:

  • It tries to assess jobs, not people.
  • The standards of job evaluation are relative, not absolute.
  • The basic information on which job evaluations are made is obtained from job analysis.
  • Job evaluations are carried out by groups, not by individuals.
  • Some degree of subjectivity is always present in job evaluation.
  • Job evaluation does not fix pay scales, but merely provides a basis for evaluating a rational wage structure.

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