Answer to Question #224158 in Management for Vabby

Question

An ex IIM , Kapil has come together with his classmates to start up a new venture into technology consulting. The project planning phase and infrastructure are almost ready and kickstart of the organization is just two months away. He is at the stage of planning for job description and job specification as well as compensation of the roles fixed for various functions.
a. Suggest and elaborate on any two methods to collect data for the job analysis process.
b. Define job evaluation. Recommend and elaborate a job evaluation technique to Kapil for this company.

Answer 1

1) Interview Method

It involves discussions between job analysis and job occupants or experts. Job analysis data from individual and is often supplemented by information from supervisors of employees whose jobs are to be analysed.

2) Functional job analysis

It is a method that uses precise terminology and a structured job analysis to record information regarding the job content. e. g selection functions.

b)Job evaluation is the process of assessing the relative values of work in an organization through comparing it with other jobs within the outside job market and those within the organization.

I reccomend the classification or grading evaluation method.The reason why I recommend this job evaluation technique is because of its generic job characteristics grouped in levels of predetermined classifications.It has the advantage of being straight forward with little time consuming. In grading ,the system is subject to grade inflation as jobs get pushed to the next high level.There can also occur the challenge where one size does not fit all so jobs maybe forfeit into grades. Therefore, individual jobs are compared to groups of job characteristics then matched to specific grade classification.