WHAT IS JOB EVALUATION?

WHAT IS JOB EVALUATION?

            A systematic, formal process that allows organisations to compare jobs to others across the company and the industry. Job evaluation is often seen as the foundation for a fair and efficient pay framework. Job evaluation is a term which is applied to a number of distinct but related administrative methods which rank or assess the relative value of different jobs or occupations. Job evaluation is a systematic and orderly process of determining the worth of a job in relation to other jobs. The objective of this process is to determine the correct rate of pay. To remind that job analysis is the process of describing the duties of a job authority relationship, skills required, conditions of work etc.

      In the words of Kimball and Kimball, “Job evaluation represent an effort to determine the relative value of every job in an plant to determine what the fair basic wage for such a job should be.”

     According to Wendell French. “Job evaluation is a process of determining the relative worth of the various job within the organisation, so that difference wages may be paid to jobs of different worth.”

According to British Institute of Management, “Job evaluation is the process, analysis and assessment of the job to ascertain reliably their relative importance using the assessment as a basis for balanced wage structure.”

      In the words of Dale Yoder, "Job evaluation is a practice which seeks to provide a degree of objectivity in measuring the comparative value of jobs within an organisation and among similar organisations."

      In the words of Edwin B. Flippo. "Job evaluation is a systematic and orderly process of determining the worth of a job in relation to other jobs."

According to Bureau of Labour Statistics, "Job evaluation is the evaluation or rating of job to determine their position in job hierarchy. The evaluation may be achievement through assignment of points or the use of some other systematic rating method for essential job requirements such as skill, experience and responsibility."

            Job evaluation is an orderly and systematic technique which aims at determining the worth of various jobs in the organisation. In other words, it is a formal system of determining the base compensation of jobs. “Job evaluation may be defined as an attempt to determine and compare the demands which the normal performance of particular jobs makes on normal workers without taking into account of the individual abilities or performance of the workers concerned.” —International Labour Office (ILO). Job evaluation may be defined as the process of determining the demands in terms of efforts and abilities which the normal performance of a job makes on normal workers. The demand made on the workers by a particular job is the worth of that job. Job evaluation rates the job and not the job-holder.