Managing Performance
Review Questions 2012/2013
Employee Motivation
1. (a) Outline 2 different methods of job evaluation with which you are familiar. Include in your answer a brief explanation of whether the method outlined would be acceptable as a method of determining comparable worth in an equal value case. (12 marks)
Non-analytical Scheme – non-analytical evaluation schemes is that whole jobs are compared with each other without any attempt to break down and analyse jobs under their various demands and components. These types of job evaluation schemes are particualry prone to sex discrimination because where whole jobs are being compared, judgments made by the evaluators can have little odjective basis oher than the traditional value of the job. Cant be used to defend case in equal value.
Paired Comparistion – this is a method of evealuation in which each employee is campared with each other employee and job. Employee comparison are performad usually on the basis of overall performance, wherea job evaluations are usually on the basis of skill, knowledge and the time required in their performance. Score derived from paired comparison are often compared with with the standard davation and mean of all scores to arrive at standard scores for future comparision. Points awarded of job ranking are then totalled and a rank order produced. This method of job evaluation has all the advanages of job ranking and is slightly more systematic. It does not involve any analysis or indicate the difference between them. Paired comparison is not acceptable as method of determinng comparable worth in equal value cases.
Analytical Scheme – analytical evaluation schemes are sschemes where job s are broken down into components known as factors, and scores for each component of the job are awarded with final total