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Human Resource Management Preet Kanwal, Lovely Professional University

Notes Unit 9: Job Evaluation

CONTENTS
Objectives
Introduction
9.1 Objectives of Job Evaluation
9.2 Principles of Job Evaluation Programme

9.3 Advantages of Job Evaluation
9.4 Job Evaluation Process
9.5 Methods of Job Evaluation
9.5.1 Non-analytical Methods
9.5.2 Analytical Method
9.6 Criticisms for Job Evaluation
9.7 Summary
9.8 Keywords

9.9 Review Questions
9.10 Further Readings
Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:
 Define the term Job evaluation
 Discuss objectives of job evaluation

 State the principles of job evaluation programme
 Explain the Process of job evaluation
 Analyze the methods of job evaluation

Introduction

Job evaluation is the output provided by job analysis. Job analysis describes the duties of a job,
authority relationships, skills, required, conditions of work and additional relevant information.
Job evaluation, on the other hand, uses the information in job analysis to evaluate each
job-valuing its components and ascertaining relative job worth. It involves a formal and
systematic comparison of jobs in order to determine the worth of one job relative to another, so
that the wage or salary can be fixed. So it is a process by which jobs in an organization are
appraised.

ILO defines job evaluation as an attempt to determine and compare demands which the normal
performance of a particular job makes on normal workers without taking into account the
individual abilities or performance of the workers concerned.
Kimball and Kimball define job evaluation as "an effort to determine the relative value of every
job in a plant to determine what the fair basic wage for such a job should be".

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