MHR 749 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Job Analysis, Job Evaluation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Human Resources
• Course: MHR 749
• Professor: Margaret Yap

Document Summary

Establish the purpose of evaluation, decide whether to use a single or multiple plans, choose among alternative approaches, obtain involvement of relevant stakeholders, and evaluate plans usefulness. Supports organizational strategy: by stating what it is of the job that adds value to the organization. Supports workflow: a job evaluation supports workflow by aligning each jobs pay with its relative contribution to the organization and by setting pay for new and unique jobs. Fair to employees: job evaluations help to reduce any discrepancies and reduce the role of bias, favourtism, etc. that may have been played when setting pay structure. Motivates behavior toward organizational objectives: job evaluations spell out to the employees what is about their job that adds value to the organization. Ranking: is a job evaluation method that ranks a job from highest to lowest based on a global definition of value. It is simple, fast and easy to do.