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Incorporating Employee Values in Job Evaluation
Author(s) -
Beuhring Trisha
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1989.tb02366.x
Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , plan (archaeology) , psychology , job evaluation , applied psychology , job performance , validity , set (abstract data type) , job analysis , operations management , computer science , job satisfaction , social psychology , psychometrics , engineering , clinical psychology , power (physics) , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , programming language , history
Concerns about the validity and reliability of existing job evaluation plans led the University of Minnesota's Personnel Department to design its own point‐factor plan based on employee values of job worth. Items for the new plan were selected by employee committees, grouped into factors, and weighted by means of a general employee survey. The items were turned into a job evaluation questionnaire for employees to use in describing their own positions, and the questionnaire was used to evaluate 1426 positions in a representative set of 125 job classes. These data provided a basis for refining the plan, assessing its validity and reliability, implementing comparable worth, and revising the university's position classification system.