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Unit 9: Job Evaluation

7. How can a job evaluation programme be made more effective? Notes
8. Discuss the utility of job evaluation. Briefly explain the various methods of job evaluation.
9. Define and differentiate between job analysis and job evaluation. Explain the organisational
context when you would undertake one or the other.
10. Explain the procedure involved in the evaluation of a job.
11. Job evaluation determines the worth of job and not that of the job-holder. Comment.
12. Considering all methods, why is the point method the most widely used for job evaluation?

13. You have been named compensation manager for a hospital. How would you establish a
key system?
14. Describe the use of job evaluations in practice. Why is there such a difference between
theory and practice?
15. Explain how jobs that are internally and externally equitable in pay may harm an
organisation's ability to compete globally.
16. Should the job evaluation depend on an appraisal of the job-holder's performance? Why?
Why not?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. job analysis 2. Job analysis
3. Information 4. comparative job requirement
5. should not 6. F
7. T 8. F
9. F 10. F

11. F 12. F
13. T 14. T
15. T

9.10 Further Readings

Books Aswathapa, K. (2008), Human Resource Management, 5th ed., Tata McGraw Hill.

Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya, Human Resource Management, Excel Books.
French, W.L. (1990), Human Resource Management, 4th ed., Houghton Miffin, Boston.
H.J. Bernardin, Human Resource Management, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2004.
Ivancevich, J. M. (2008), Human Resource Management, Tata McGraw Hill.

Madhurima Lall and Sakina Qasim Zaidi, Human Resource Management, Excel
Books.
Rao P.S. (2008), Essentials of Human Resource Management and Industrial.

Relations, Text cases and Games, Himalaya Publication.

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