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Martha is the HR Professional for her organization and she's working with her team to complete non-quantitative job evaluations. Martha wants to stress the available types of non-quantitative job eval
The correct answer is C. Factor comparison. Factor comparison is a quantitative job evaluation method because it assigns numerical monetary values to compensable job factors, making it fundamentally different from non-quantitative techniques. Martha should exclude it when presenting non-quantitative options to managers.
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Martha is the HR Professional for her organization and she's working with her team to complete non-quantitative job evaluations. Martha wants to stress the available types of non-quantitative job evaluation techniques that are appropriate for her team to be communicated to managers. Which one of the following is not a non-quantitative job evaluation technique that Martha should share?
Options
- AWhole job ranking
- BJob slotting
- CFactor comparison
- DJob classification
How the community answered
(20 responses)- A10% (2)
- B5% (1)
- C70% (14)
- D15% (3)
Why each option
Factor comparison is a quantitative job evaluation method because it assigns numerical monetary values to compensable job factors, making it fundamentally different from non-quantitative techniques. Martha should exclude it when presenting non-quantitative options to managers.
Whole job ranking is a non-quantitative method that evaluates and orders entire jobs relative to one another based on overall worth without decomposing them into factors, making it a valid non-quantitative technique.
Job slotting is a non-quantitative method that places a new or revised job into an existing hierarchy by comparing it to benchmark jobs, and is appropriately included in non-quantitative evaluation discussions.
Factor comparison is a quantitative job evaluation method that ranks jobs by individual compensable factors such as skill, effort, and responsibility, then assigns a monetary rate to each factor ranking. Because it relies on numerical scaling and dollar-value weighting rather than holistic judgment, it does not belong in a list of non-quantitative methods alongside ranking, slotting, and classification.
Job classification is a non-quantitative method that assigns jobs to predefined grades or classes based on broad narrative descriptions, making it a legitimate non-quantitative technique Martha should share.
Concept tested: Quantitative versus non-quantitative job evaluation methods
Source: https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/tools/toolkits/managing-employee-compensation
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