Job Evaluation: Foundations and applications.

1 Job Evaluation: Foundations and applications. What's inside. The Korn Ferry Hay Group Guide Chart-Profile Method of Job EvaluationSM is the most widely accepted method worldwide, in 03 Introduction. use by over half of the world's largest employers and thousands of organizations in every sector of the global economy. 04 Korn Ferry Hay Group job evaluation: Foundations . The Guide Chart method is well known for its use in establishing the value of work in organizations. Korn Ferry Hay Group's 05 Korn Ferry Hay Group job job evaluation method also serves as the basis for many other evaluation: factors. important human capital applications, such as clarifying 08 The Korn Ferry Hay Group organization structures, defining job interdependencies and Guide Charts.

2 Accountabilities; identifying capability requirements needed for talent development, and setting competitive pay practices. 09 Organizational design and analysis. 11 Talent development and succession planning. Korn Ferry Hay Group's job evaluation 15 Global leveling. method serves as the basis for many other 16 Pay structure design. important human capital applications. 17 Streamlined approaches. 18 Job evaluation process. 19 Conclusion. 19 References. 2. | Job Evaluation: Foundations and applications. |. Introduction In this challenging business environment, Organizations are organizations realize that lax control of human asking for effective resource programs increase organizational risk, which are reflected in higher costs, inadequate and efficient talent pipelines, mis-aligned reward programs, programs that meet and reduced employee engagement.

3 Organizations multiple needs and are asking for effective and efficient programs that reduce costs. Korn meet multiple needs and reduce costs. Korn Ferry Ferry Hay Group's Hay Group's job evaluation methodology can help organizations achieve these goals. job evaluation methodology can Korn Ferry Hay Group's approach is designed to maximize an help organizations organization's return on its human resources investment. While historically linked primarily to reward management, we evolved a achieve these goals. set of methods that clarify organization structure design, facilitate mapping of job accountabilities to business objectives, and link characteristic job evaluation patterns to behavioral competencies.

4 All of these approaches are supported with rigorous methodologies, technology tools, and streamlined processes, which when applied have become the best practice standard used by the world's most admired organizations. This paper provides an overview of the Korn Ferry Hay Group Guide Chart-Profile Method of Job Evaluation, related applications, and streamlined approaches that are based on the core methodology. 3. Korn Ferry Hay Group job evaluation: Foundations . Korn Ferry Hay Group pioneered the three factors as know-how,' problem-solving' and accountability.' During the evaluation process, a factor comparison' job evaluation job's content is analyzed relative to each factor and method and in the early 1950s assigned a numerical value.

5 These factor values are consolidated the method into the then totaled to determine the overall job size.' The Korn Ferry Hay Group Guide Charts various job size relationships, as well as the factor proportions associated with each job, can be useful (Bellak, 1984). The Korn Ferry Hay in a number of organizational and human resource Group Guide Charts are proprietary planning applications. instruments that yield consistent Most Korn Ferry Hay Group clients use the full and legally defensible evaluations power of the core Guide Chart methodology to of the content of jobs. Korn Ferry evaluate a core set of benchmark jobs. These benchmark evaluations, which reflect both the Hay Group's job evaluation approach breadth of the organization's functions and business is the world's most widely utilized, units and the various levels in the organizational accepted, and tested over time as a hierarchy, form the foundational framework or fair and unbiased way to determine backbone of the job leveling structure.

6 Job worth. Some of our clients continue to use the full Guide Chart methodology to evaluate all other positions. Organizations use the Korn Ferry Hay Group Others, depending on their specific needs and methodology to evaluate jobs against a set of applications of the job evaluation process, adopt common factors that measure inputs required one or more of a set of streamlined approaches (knowledge, skills, and capabilities), throughputs Streamlined approaches are built on the foundation (processing of inputs to achieve results), and of the full Guide Charts, and are based on the outputs (end result expectations). We define these benchmark job structure. 4. | Job Evaluation: Foundations and applications.

7 |. Korn Ferry Hay Group job evaluation: factors. The input-throughput-output model is 2. Nature of impact: The nature of the job's impact and influence on organizational results. See the reflected in the Korn Ferry Hay Group in-depth discussion So, who is accountable?' on method as knowhow, problem solving, the following page. and accountability. Each factor 3. M. agnitude (area of impact): The business includes two-to-three subfactors. measure(s) the job is designed to positively impact (measured on an annual basis, typically in financial The output factor accountability is covered terms, to achieve consistency across jobs). first, since every job is designed to achieve predetermined results. This factor typically receives the least attention and weight in many Know-how.

8 Other evaluation methodologies. In the Korn Ferry To achieve the accountabilities of a job requires Hay Group methodology, accountability related know-how' (or inputs), which is the sum total of concepts are woven into all three factors, with the every capability or skill, however acquired, needed most direct linkage in the accountability factor. The for fully competent job performance. Know-how has accountability also grows in relative weight and three dimensions: important as job size increases, unlike some models that keep accountability at a fixed weight. 4. Practical/technical knowledge: Depth and breadth of technical or specialized knowledge and skills needed to achieve desired results. Accountability.

9 5. P. lanning, organizing, and integrating Every job exists to add organizational value (managerial) knowledge: The requirement to by delivering some set of results (or outputs). undertake managerial functions, such as planning, Accountability measures the type and level of value organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling a job can add. In this sense, it is the job's measured resources. This knowledge is applied in an effect on an organization's value chain. In the Korn integrated way to ensure organizational results Ferry Hay Group evaluation methodology, it has are achieved. three dimensions (in order of importance): 6. Communicating and influencing skills: The active 1. F. reedom to act: The degree of organizational requirement for interpersonal skills that are empowerment to take action and the guidance needed for successful interaction with individuals provided to focus on decision-making.

10 And groups, inside and outside the organization. 5. So, who is accountable? A clear understanding of impact and its relation to Contributory. Interpretive, advisory, or facilitating overall accountability is critical when designing services for use by others in taking action. This type and evaluating jobs. of impact is appropriate where jobs are accountable for rendering significant advice and counsel' in Consider the case of a major hotel chain CEO who addition to information and/or analysis and when insisted that the annual planning around rack rates' decisions are likely to be made by virtue of that for each property would be shared between the counsel. Such impacts are commonly found in staff managers of national sales and operations.