Job Grading: Step-by-Step Processes and Practical Guidance

What you will learn

• Understand modern job evaluation methods, their features and differences.
• Build a grading system.
• Choose a grade structure design that fits the company's goals.
• Implement grading as a project.

Course benefits

• An in-demand skill for compensation and HR specialists.
• In-person or online format: please check with a manager.
• HSE IPAA certificate of completion.
• Bonuses toward other courses at the school.

Curriculum

1. Pay strategy and policy

1.1. What makes up a compensation package.

1.2. Labor market trends.

2. A grade-based reward system

2.1. Job description and analysis: description formats, information gathering procedure, position analysis.

2.2. Job evaluation methods: the Hay method (Edward Hay) and the Mercer methodology.

2.3. Your own job evaluation system: choosing factors, assigning their weights, the rating scale and level descriptions for each factor.

2.4. Base pay structure:

• determining the number of grades;
• salary ranges: width, range overlap, steps;
• setting an employee's salary within the range based on their appraisal;
• position categories and allowances as tools for adjusting salaries;
• types of grade structures: narrow (traditional) ranges and broad pay bands (broadbanding).

3. Implementing a grading system: a project approach

3.1. Communication plan and channels: corporate media, meetings, presentations.

3.2. Communication principles: who to inform, what, when, why, where and how.