Chapter 6

What's the best description of job evaluation?

Assessing the relative value of jobs in an organization

Janice is a HR specialist engaged in job evaluation applying the same five general factors to each job. Which job evaluation method is Janice using?

This is an example of the factor comparison method where the same five universal factors are used to evaluate all jobs: mental requirements, skills, physical requirements, responsibilities, and working conditions.

Why is performance standardization important?

allows the company to appraise individual employee performance not only against the position's standards but also against other employees in similar positions.

teams

empower employees and help with any direction needed.

Henry is an HR specialist who has divided all of the jobs in the company into six broad classes, some of which have grades within each class. Which job evaluation method is Henry using?

he classification method involves placing jobs in different classes. Sometimes the same job will be assigned different grades in each class in recognition of greater qualifications and responsibilities require

service delivery tool

include software applications and other technology, like mobile applications, that help people gain access to information about products and services.

Tom is an HR specialist. He is determining what tasks his company needs to perform in order to accomplish its goals. What is Tom doing?

job anaylsis

James is an HR specialist. He is determining what tasks need to be performed, how the tasks should be performed and how these tasks relate to other tasks in his company. What is James doing?

job design

mary is an HR specialist who needs to consider the importance of each job to the organization when she determines compensation for the jobs. Which type of job evaluation method is Mary using?

job ranking

James is an HR specialist that is evaluating jobs in different clusters by assigning values to each compensable factor for each job in the cluster. Which job evaluation method is James using?

point factor method