21-01-2016, 02:53 PM
Learning Objectives:
1. To know basic approach to Job Evaluation.
2. To importance of Job Evaluation and its effectiveness.
3. To know the important methods of Job Evaluation.
Now friends we will discuss about how jobs used to be evaluated in an organization; if somebody having any idea about it please start explaining it; this can be explained in the following way. Job evaluation is the process of analyzing and assessing the various jobs systematically to ascertain their relative worth in an organization. Job is evaluated on the basis of their content and is placed in the order of their importance.
It should be noted that in a job evaluation programme, the jobs are ranked and not the jobholders. Jobholders are rated through performance appraisal.
“Job evaluation is a process of finding out the relative worth of a job as compared to other jobs”. Now, who is going to explain the objectives of job evaluation? The following objectives are derived from the analysis of the above-mentioned definitions: -
1) To gather data and information relating to job description, job specification and employee specifications for various jobs in an organization.
2) To compare the duties, responsibilities and demands of a job with that of other jobs.
3) To determine the hierarchy and place of various jobs in an organization.
4) To determine the ranks or grades of various jobs.
5) To ensure fair and equitable wages on the basis of relative worth or value of jobs. In other words equal wages are fixed to the jobs of equal worth or value.
6) To minimize wage discrimination based on sex, age, caste, region, religion etc.