Job Evaluation: A Guide to Achieving Equal Pay

by Armstrong, Michael; Cummins, Ann; Hastings, Sue; Wood, Willie

• ISBN13: 9780749444815
• ISBN10: 0749444819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Summary

A practical guide to designing, introducing and managing job evaluation processes and the pay structures associated with them. It reflects the growing realization that there is a need to take action to completely remove gender pay inequalities, to develop equal pay guidelines, as well as to develop a procedure for conducting equal pay reviews.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(148)
1 Fundamentals of job evaluation	3	(8)
Job evaluation defined	4	(1)
Purpose, aims and features of job evaluation	5	(2)
The incidence of job evaluation	7	(1)
The case for and against job evaluation	8	(1)
Conclusions	9	(2)
2 Types of job evaluation	11	(18)
Analytical schemes	12	(6)
Non-analytical schemes	18	(8)
Design and process criteria	26	(2)
Criteria for choice	28	(1)
3 Job evaluation now	29	(6)
Interest in job evaluation	29	(1)
Job evaluation schemes	30	(1)
Factor plans	30	(1)
Reasons for using job evaluation	31	(1)
Views about job evaluation	31	(1)
Tips from practitioners on the design, introduction and maintenance of job evaluation schemes	32	(3)
4 Equal pay for work of equal value	35	(12)
Background	35	(2)
Equal pay legislation in the UK	37	(1)
The impact of the legislation on job evaluation practice in the UK	38	(1)
Impact of equal pay legislation on job evaluation design	39	(4)
Impact of equal pay legislation on implementation of job evaluation	43	(4)
5 Equal payreviews	47	(18)
Why conduct equal pay reviews?	48	(3)
Planning a review	51	(1)
The equal pay review process	52	(3)
Analysing pay	55	(6)
Conclusion	61	(4)
6 Planning a new job evaluation scheme	65	(18)
Overview	65	(2)
Choosing a job evaluation scheme	67	(3)
Project planning	70	(7)
Equal value considerations	77	(1)
Planning communications	77	(3)
The design timetable	80	(3)
7 Scheme design	83	(26)
Identifying and defining factors	84	(8)
Analysing jobs	92	(6)
Testing the draft factor plan	98	(5)
Deciding on factor weighting and the scoring model	103	(4)
Preparing for implementation	107	(2)
8 Computer-based job evaluation	109	(20)
The two stages of job evaluation	110	(1)
Computers in scheme design	110	(7)
Computers in the evaluation process	117	(12)
9 Grade and pay structure design	129	(20)
Grade and pay structures	129	(4)
Rationale for grade and pay structures	133	(1)
Criteria for grade and pay structures	133	(1)
Grade structure design considerations	134	(2)
The use of job evaluation in developing a grade structure and grading jobs	136	(4)
Developing pay structures	140	(5)
Equal value considerations	145	(3)
Conclusion	148	(1)
10 Introducing job evaluation	149	(36)
Implementation plan	150	(1)
Communication	151	(4)
Operating manual	155	(1)
Training	156	(1)
Scheduling the evaluation programme	157	(5)
Evaluating jobs	162	(8)
Review of results	170	(2)
Disclosure of results	172	(2)
Reviewing the evaluation or grading of a job	174	(3)
Finalizing pay ranges	177	(1)
Pay assimilation and protection	178	(5)
Ensuring equal value	183	(2)
11 Managing job evaluation	185	(8)
Annual individual evaluation/grading checks	186	(2)
Suggestions from practitioners on managing job evaluation	188	(5)
Appendix 1 A job evaluation scheme designed to comply with equal value principles: the local government NJC job evaluation scheme factor plan	193	(2)
Appendix 2 Suggested equal pay policy: the Equal Opportunities Commission	195	(2)
Appendix 3 Factors creating pay gaps and remedial actions	197	(3)
Appendix 4 Job evaluation scheme design: equal value considerations	200	(2)
Appendix 5 Illustration of job stacking exercise	202	(2)
Appendix 6 Examples of job evaluation factors	204	(2)
Appendix 7 Example role profiles	206	(2)
Appendix 8 AoC job evaluation scheme	208	(6)
Index	214

Excerpts

Fundamentals of job evaluation; types of job evaluation; job evaluation now; equal pay for work of equal value; equal pay reviews; planning a new job evaluation scheme; scheme design; computer-based job evaluation; grade and pay structure design; introducing job evaluation; managing job evaluation