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Job evaluation determines the worth of a job and not of job holder – Comment.

Job Evaluation:

Definitions:

• Job evaluation is the process of systematically determining a relative value of jobs in an organization. In all cases the idea is to evaluate the job, not the person doing it.

• A process of determining the relative worth of the various jobs within the organization, so that differential wage may be paid to jobs of different worth. (Wendell L. French).

• The overall activity of involving an orderly, systematic method and procedure of ranking, grading and weighing of jobs to determine the value of a specific job in relation to other jobs.

• An attempt to determine and compare demands which the normal performance of a particular job makes or normal workers, without taking into account the individual abilities or performance of the workers concerned. (International Labor Organization).

• Assessment of the relative worth of varied jobs on the basis of a consistent set of job and personal factors, such as qualifications and skills required.

• The process of analyzing and assessing the content of jobs, in order to place them in an acceptable rank order, which can then be used as a basis for remuneration system. (British Institute of Management – 1970).

• The complete operation of determining the value of an individual job in relation to the other jobs in the organization. It begins with job analysis to obtain job description and job specifications and includes the process of relating the descriptions by some system designed to determine the relative value of the jobs or groups of jobs. (Gray).

Job evaluation is the process of analyzing and assessing the various jobs systematically to ascertain their relative worth in an organization. Jobs are evaluated on the basis of their content and are placed in the order of their importance. In this way, a job hierarchy is established in the organization, the purpose...