For most organizations, compensation
costs are their major expense; and base pay is the largest part of these
costs. Therefore, cost effective, rational wage structures are vital to an
organization’s fiscal health. In order to establish such a wage structure,
the company must first create a job hierarchy. Doing so has 2 basic steps:
analyzing jobs and evaluating those jobs to create a hierarchy. This
course describes the second step, job evaluation.
Today’s attorney acts as a consultant to many of his or her clients. Not
understanding salary administration cripples an attorney’s ability to deal
with cases regarding comparable worth and pay discrimination. This course
looks at job evaluation as both a cause of, and solution to, pay
discrimination. It shows how this process can be used to reduce pay
grievances, by establishing agreed-upon pay determinants.
