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Compensation Systems: Prof. Rama Shankar Yadav

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Compensation Systems

Prof. Rama Shankar Yadav

Indian Institute of Management Rohtak


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Objectives
Job Evaluation
Process of
• Systematically determining the relative worth
of jobs
• To create a job structure for the organization.
• Evaluation is based on a combination of
– Job content,
– Skills required,
– Value to the organization,
– Organizational culture and
– The external market.
(Note: focus is the job, not the person doing a job.)
Assumptions Underlying
Different Views of Job Evaluation
Aspect of Job Evaluation Assumption

Assessment of job
Content has intrinsic value outside external market.
content

Assessment of Stakeholders can reach consensus on relative


relative value value.

External market link Value cannot be specified without external market.

Measurement Honing instruments will provide objective measures.

Negotiation Puts face of rationality to a social / political


process; establishes rules of the game and invites
participation.
Determining an Internally
Aligned Job Structure

Internal
alignment Job analysis Job description Job evaluation Job structure
Major Decisions
• Establish purpose of Job Evaluation
– Which supports organization strategy
– Supports work flow
– Fair to employees
– Motivates behavior toward
organization objectives
• Single vs. multiple plans
• Choose the best method
• Obtain involvement of relevant stakeholders
• Evaluate plan’s usefulness
In India Legal Acts for Compensation
• Under the Workmen’s Compensation Act,
1923, section 3 of the Act
– Provides for the liability of an employer to pay
compensation to the employee
• Minimum Wages Act 1948.
– An Act to provide for fixing minimum rates
of wages in certain employments.
Comparison of
Job Evaluation Methods
Advantage Disadvantage

Cumbersome as number of
Ranking Fast, simple, easy to explain. jobs increases. Basis for
comparisons is not called out.

Can group a wide range of Descriptions may leave too


Classification
work together in one system. much room for manipulation.

Compensable factors call out


basis for comparisons. Can become bureaucratic and
Point
Compensable factors rule-bound.
communicate what is valued.
Ranking Method

• Orders job descriptions from highest to lowest


based on a global definition of relative value or
contribution to the organization’s success
Point Method
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