Job evaluation

Creating the right foundation for your organisation

Job evaluation assesses more than just pay and grading. It provides a robust foundation for designing effective organisations and managing talent, while supporting organisational values and culture.

Laying firm foundations

Today, organisations are constantly required to respond to market developments and evolve. New structures, matrixed organisations and unique roles are frequently the result, but they can raise their own challenges.
It is easy to focus on one area of the organisation at a time and to think only of the resources you have available. Consequently, you may create jobs that duplicate effort. In turn this makes it even more difficult to fit the right people to the right jobs, manage succession planning and talent management effectively. Hay Groups job evaluation method can reduce the risk of this and helps to provide an optimal return on your investment in people.

Matrixed organisations
In order to meet the demands of a changing operating environment, more organisations are becoming matrixed. These new structures often result in multiple reporting lines and overlapping accountability, making it difficult to communicate strategy and purpose in a clear and concise way.

New structures
Career and resource management can be difficult in new structures where resources are aligned along process, product and project lines, rather than traditional functional areas. In addition, in these non traditional career structures, executives are often exposed to roles of a similar status but which may require very different competencies.

Unique roles
As organisations have changed, becoming flatter and leaner, jobs too have changed. Many jobs now have evolving multi functional roles. This makes them much harder to understand and to compare like for like. Hay Groups proprietary job evaluation method, the Guide Chart Profile Method, addresses these issues, going beyond job evaluations traditional scope of assessing the value and contribution of individual jobs.

Job evaluation: creating the right foundation for your organisation

How Hay Groups method of job evaluation can help

Pay and value alignment
Most organisations use job evaluation primarily to underpin pay levels. They understand that it enables them to manage people based on the expertise they bring, whilst using the market as a point of reference. They have learnt that matching jobs against job titles or referencing job descriptions does not take into account a jobs actual organisational impact. In addition, job evaluation is commonly used to determine grade ranges that reflect individual organisational structures and the different types of jobs within them. However, as well as being a pay and grading tool, Hay Groups job evaluation method also provides a rigorous process for equal pay purposes and beyond this can help identify and measure the value created in roles, so that rewards are linked to outputs or deliverables.

Organisational clarity
Hay Groups rigorous job evaluation process provides a common framework and language for designing jobs more effectively within a structure that best supports business strategy. It helps organisations clarify strategic goals and objectives and distribute them into job specific accountabilities, ensuring that there are no gaps or overlaps. This is something that is particularly relevant in matrixed environments. Our job evaluation method also enables a review of organisational structures against processes, roles and accountabilities, providing a foolproof test of whether or not they are effective. The framework that job evaluation provides also enables organisations to link annual objectives and development activities to accountabilities.

Selection and assessment

Job evaluation can be used to reveal the strong links between the nature and shape of senior manager and executive jobs and the competencies required to achieve outstanding performance. Understanding the works scope significantly increases organisations ability and accuracy to select and develop high performing executives. It also enables them to design jobs that increase the likelihood of the jobholder succeeding. Hay Groups job evaluation method provides a quick decision making rationale to help determine exactly whether the right person is in the right job. Not only does this help the individual be more effective more quickly, but also helps minimise the risk for the organisation and as a result maintains the confidence of investors and other stakeholders.

Succession and career planning

Job evaluation can assess the extent to which a job prepares an individual for the additional challenges of a bigger job or more senior role. Hay Groups method makes it easy to use this key feature for succession planning purposes, as it provides a framework against which talent can be managed in an informed way. It combines an understanding of the roles needed to support the organisation, the definition of successful performance and the competencies required to achieve it.

Hay Group support

Our knowledge and experience of working with clients over the years means that we understand how your organisation can get the most value from our job evaluation method. Below is a range of the services we offer to help you achieve this. 1. Training sessions Whether your employees are new to our job evaluation method or just need refresher training, Hay Group can help. We provide regular training sessions in our London offices but we can also arrange a bespoke solution to suit your needs. 2. Quality assurance reviews The organisations we review on a regular basis demonstrate consistent and reliable evaluations. This gives them the confidence to know that their processes and standards are fair internally and competitive externally in relation to market pay. We can help you address any concerns you have over the use of our method within your organisation. 3. Using the method more efficiently and flexibly Saving time and money is on everyones mind at the moment. We have the tools, references and capability to help you improve the way you manage your job evaluation process so that its cost effective for your organisation. 4. Linking job evaluation to your overall business model Job evaluation helps pull together a picture of how your organisation operates. To make sure you are getting the full value from the method, we can help you identify whether your jobs and structures support your organisations strategy. 5. Linking job evaluation to your equality issues All pay and grading structures have a shelf life. If your organisation has changed, merged or de-layered we can review your evaluation processes and make sure they are still suitable for your organisation and valid for equal pay purposes.

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Why Hay Group?

Hay Groups Guide Chart Profile Method
is the most widely used and recognised proprietary job evaluation system in the world. Hay Group operates in 85 offices across 47 countries and we collect pay data in over 100, so we can meet your needs across geographical boundaries.

Hay Groups basic theory that differently

shaped jobs require different types of people is supported by our comprehensive leadership database which contains years of study and analysis of over 65,000 global executives.

The concepts of step differences and job

shape built into Hay Groups method make it unique in providing insights into organisation and job design. This underpins other key people processes including career development and succession planning.

Hay Groups method has the added

advantage of including a number of checks and balances to assist organisations with making consistent and robust judgements of job size.

Hay Groups job evaluation approach provides

a sound and straightforward method to measure and value work on an ongoing basis. It enables organisations to make sound judgements about internal relativities and provides comparisons with external organisations.

Hay Groups job evaluation method is

analytical with non discriminatory factors, enabling it to support the achievement of equal pay for equal value.

Hay Groups job evaluation method

is supported by the most extensive compensation and benefits database. It provides the unique capability, in a single process, of accessing comprehensive external market data providing valid and rigorous pay market comparisons.

Hay Group has a powerful online tool to

build and maintain an organisations job structure. Job Evaluation Manager (JEM) has been developed on an internet based platform to provide leading edge support at all stages of a clients job evaluation process.

Clients who have used our system for over 30 years are proof that Hay Groups job evaluation process works. It combines a sound conceptual basis and robustness which has enabled it to stand the test of time, with inherent flexibility allowing it to respond to any changes in an organisation and individual roles.

Hay Groups job evaluation method is the most widely used and recognised proprietary job evaluation system in the world.

Hay Group is a global management consulting firm that works with leaders to transform strategy into reality. We develop talent, organise people to be more effective and motivate them to perform at their best. Our focus is on making change happen and helping people and organisations realise their potential. We have 2600 employees working in 85 offices in 47 countries. For more information please contact your local office through www.haygroup.co.uk

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