Management and Organizational Studies 3342A/B Lecture 4: MOS3342 Oct 13

• School: Western University
• Department: Management and Organizational Studies
• Course: Management and Organizational Studies 3342A/B
• Professor: Gail Robertson

Document Summary

The systematic process of collection information about the nature of specific jobs. Process of systematically determining the relative worth of jobs to create a job structure for the organization. Summary reports that identify, define and describe the job. An ordering of jobs on the basis of their content or relative value. Basic premise: certain jobs contribute more to organizational effectiveness and success than others, and thus, should be paid more than others. Job evaluation is based on job content and internal job value. Job worth partially specified with external market information. 5 general steps: establish purpose of evaluation, decide whether to use single or multiple plans, choose among alternative approaches, obtain involvement of relevant stakeholders, evaluate plan"s usefulness, establish purpose(s) of evaluation. Motivates behaviour toward organizational objectives: decide whether to use single or multiple plans. Some job evaluation plans apply across jobs. Some say jobs are too varied to be accurately evaluated by a single plan.