Principles and practice of job evaluation
By: J. Walker Morris
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1973
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
Subjects: Job evaluation
Description: Job evaluation is a well-tried proceedure for finding the appropriate relative values of different jobs as a first step in desinging a fair wage-system acceptable to all parties. Unfortunately its role is frequently misunderstood. In the present inflationary situation it may, for example, be thought of as a last resource when all other remedies have failed to cure economic ills and a viable prices-and-income policy eludes grasp. This valuable new study from a noted authority sets out clearly what job evaluation is about and what it can do. The emphasis is less on describing systems - which are adequately documented already - than on placing the subject in context and examining how the principles find practical application"--back cover.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [191]
Table of contents: title: Job evaluation theory; title: Introduction; title: Objectives of job evaluation; title: Scope and limitations of job evaluation; title: Components of wages; title: Relationship of wages and evaluation; title: Anomolies in wages and their significance; title: Local and national wage constraints; title: Basic assumptions in job evaluation; title: Theory of relative values; title: Critical factors in work; title: Outline of job evaluation; title: Human relationships; title: Introducing a system; title: Human, technical, and economic problems; title: Acceptance of job evaluation; title: Job evaluation policy; title: Machinery for introducing, installing, applying, and maintaining a system of job evaluation; title: The job analyst; title: Employee participation; title: Trade union attitudes; title: Appeal against assessment; title: Outline of job evaluation techniques; title: Types of systems; title: Direct and indirect comparisons; title: Development of systems; title: Scope and limiations of various systems; title: Staff, operative, and management schemes; title: The smaller business; title: The newer business; title: ^; title: Job Analysis; title: The schedule of occupations; title: Job titles; title: Job discriptions; title: Methods of compiling job descriptions; title: Job description questionary; title: Job families and career structures; title: Job Assessment; title: The size and composition of assessment panels; title: The size and nature of the business; title: Unanimity of aims and objectives; title: Method of assessment; title: Non-analytical systems; title: Ranking; title: Grading and classification; title: Time span of responsibility; title: Job differentials; title: Analytical systems; title: Staight points comparison; title: The factor comparison system; title: The weighted points system; title: Relating the evaluation to the wage; title: Implications of job evaluation; title: Anomalies and exceptions; title: Effect on productivity; title: Redundancy; title: Equal pay for work of equal value; title: Cost of application; title: Life of application; title: Maintaining the system; title: Causes of erosion and decay; title: Financial incentives; title: Economic pressures; title: Technological chance; title: Trends and development; title: Problem areas; title: ^; title: Paterson decision band method; title: Urwick, Orr profile method; title: Aspect grading.