Valuing Roles: How to Establish Relative Worth

Organizations have different drivers that influence how roles and jobs are evaluated and rewarded. Valuing Roles offers practical advice and highlights the benefits and risk of the different approaches businesses can use. It shows how job evaluation intersects with pay-related processes, systems and policies. Valuing Roles examines the 'why' and 'how' behind the concept. It provides:
• An overview of the approaches and current issues
• An outline of the methodology
• A guide to designing and implementing a scheme and structures
• Coverage of topics such as equal pay and marketing pricing It includes international case studies, flowcharts, checklists, templates, and an analysis of a job evaluation survey carried out in 2007 by e-reward.

Organizations have different drivers that influence how roles and jobs are evaluated and rewarded. Valuing Roles offers practical advice and highlights the benefits and risk of the different approaches businesses can use. It shows how job evaluation intersects with pay-related processes, systems and policies.

Valuing Roles examines the 'why' and 'how' behind the concept. It provides:

* An overview of the approaches and current issues

* An outline of the methodology

* A guide to designing and implementing a scheme and structures

* Coverage of topics such as equal pay and marketing pricing

It also includes international case studies, flowcharts, checklists, templates, and an analysis of a job evaluation survey carried out in 2007 by e-reward.

Michael Armstrong is a former Chief Examiner of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, joint managing partner of e-reward and an independent management consultant. He has sold over 500,000 books on the subject of HRM (published with Kogan Page), including "Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice".

Ann Cummins is a management consultant specializing in reward and performance management.