Valuing Work

Understanding the contribution made by different roles and jobs to the success of the organization is a vital input to the design of a wide range of human resource interventions. These include organization structures and processes, reward management, succession planning and cost containment. Through seminars and consulting work, HRM Consulting helps organizations define and analyze work, jobs, roles and teams to match their needs.

Organizations need a sound and straightforward method to measure and value work on an ongoing basis, one that effectively reflects their specific organizational culture and values. HRM Consulting will identify a benchmark jobs to be used as a basis for measuring jobs and pre-evaluate the benchmark jobs using the Guide Chart-Profile Method of Job Evaluation. Using the validated evaluations, we will design grading bands, which organization can use to easily slot additional jobs, as and when required.

Skills & Competency-based Grading

Competence-related job evaluation is usually based on core or generic competences. Competence-related factors need to represent the underlying competences required to meet the demands of roles at different levels in the organization or within a job family - this implies that it will be possible to define levels at which any particular competence or cluster of competences will be required. HRM Consulting provides the advantages of integrated approach to define job grade flexibly for reward and development.

Broad Banding

One element of pay that organizations are struggling with is the traditional system of grading. These highly vertical systems with their vast number of grades are out of synch with the flatter, flexible, team-orientated cultures that organizations are moving toward. HRM Consulting introduces the broad-banding because it allows more flexibility in making and administering pay decisions and recognizes that careers are more likely to develop within homogeneous levels of responsibility, rather than by progressing up a number of steps in a hierarchy.

Job Families & Levels of Work

Jobs are the basic building blocks of organizations and individual clarity. HRM Consulting helps clients design, assess and describe jobs - their accountabilities and competencies - in ways that enhance clarity, growth and contribution to business success. Our approach focuses on both what needs to be done and how it should be done. Because job family modelling defines the levels of competence and skill required in a hierarchy of roles, it can be used to help organization in the preparation of personal development plans.

HRM Consulting assists clients in all levels of job design - from the boardroom to the mailroom. By linking measurement tools and analytical processes, we help identify critical job requirements for today and tomorrow and determine how jobs interrelate and fit within job families or ladders.