Advisory booklet - Job evaluation: considerations and risks

Job evaluation

Booklet summary

This booklet focuses on the preparation period before embarking on job evaluation. It aims to help you answer the following questions:

what is job evaluation?
why should you consider carrying out job evaluation in your workplace?
how do you prepare for job evaluation?

Acas advocates that organisations have defensible grading structures free from sex discrimination.

We take a close look at the key issues you need to address before deciding whether job evaluation is right for your organisation. Acas advisers have extensive experience and knowledge of building job evaluation schemes. They can help you consider these issues and associated risks.

Having worked through all the issues you might decide:

not to undertake job evaluation
to put job evaluation 'on hold' until a more appropriate time
to carry out job evaluation as soon
as possible.

The booklet also explains how analytical job evaluation works in practice and discusses in more detail the use of factor plans. Nonanalytical
job evaluation schemes such as 'paired comparisons' or 'job ranking' do not provide a defence against equal value claims and are not included in this guide.

The booklet is available to download from the 'Download PDF' link below. Alternatively, hard copies are available to order from our publications section of the site.

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