A fundamental component of reward and HR management is a grade and salary structure, and these are often taken for granted. Rather than making changes, HR and reward professionals try to fit the ever-changing needs of their employees into a grade system that may not have been reviewed for many years. In an increasingly competitive environment, when you want to attract and retain the best individual employees and high-performers, having an effective and fair job evaluation and grading system is crucial to underpin best-practice reward policies and deliver pay-for-performance.
This 2-day Masterclass on Effective Job Evaluation and Grading Structures will provide a sound knowledge of job evaluation approaches and provide an understanding of how job evaluation fits into the broader context of human resources management, and to provide practical skills in the application of job evaluation systems. Most employers want to ensure that they can “attract, retain and motivate” the best employees and teams, and this course will cover the key areas in job evaluation tools and techniques and best-practice processes for evaluating jobs and placing them accurately into your overall grade structure. This course will explore the different types of job evaluation systems that are used globally, and give you a basic familiarization with the concept of job evaluation and a high-level appreciation of the most commonly used best-practice approaches (such as Hay, Mercer, Towers-Watson, etc).
You will gain hands-on practice in evaluating jobs and this course is suitable for both HR generalists and remuneration specialists, and the aim of this course is to enable you to get a better understanding of how to evaluate jobs and how to design a grade structure that will help you to attract, motivate and retain employees.
You will work on typical job evaluation and grading problems and issues, including actual issues and problems that are identified by the participants during the course. The course will include the following case studies designed around various companies globally:
Provide techniques and professional skills for job evaluation and understanding how to build grade structures, and implement one of the core essential building blocks of placing jobs fairly in the overall grading hierarchy for best-practice human resources management.
Understand the different approaches and systems and tools for job evaluation in order to determine how to place a job into the correct grade in your grading and pay structures.
Learn about the different approaches for job evaluation, and gain an understanding of which system might produce the best results within your organisation, and what ae the advantages and disadvantages of the most commonly used types of job evaluation methods.
Align your grade structures to your organisational objectives and human resources strategy and discover practical steps for implementing a job evaluation system, and developing a grading system to underpin your salary structures and remuneration policies.
Increase your business performance and employee effectiveness by developing a clear job grading structure that correctly values the responsibilities and contributions of each job to determine the correct grade for each job in your organisation.
Opportunities for networking in the breaks with your fellow course delegates and course tutor to discuss practical issues that will help you in your workplace.
Robert Mosley was awarded “Global HR Consulting CEO of the Year” in 2024, and he is in the highly prestigious and influential list by People-Hum of “The Top 100 Global Thought Leaders To Inspire You in 2021” and he was awarded the “Global HR Leadership Award” in both 2017 and 2022 by the World HR Congress to recognize his iconic contribution to the global C&B community over the past decade. He is truly one of the leading HR trainers in the world today, and he is currently in the “Global Guru #500 List” (covering all subjects, not just HR).
Robert is widely recognised in many industries and many countries as one of the leading global experts on compensation and benefits, and is also a leading expert in the more general field of human resources and performance management. His main areas of expertise and specialism are in the fields of job analysis, job descriptions, job evaluation, grading schemes, pay structures, allowances, bonuses and incentives, industrial relations and collective agreements, e-HR systems, performance management, performance appraisals, and all issues on compensation and benefits globally, especially in the GCC and Asia having worked in these regions for over 35 years.
Robert has over 35 years of experience in HR and C&B, and he developed a detailed interest in compensation and benefits when he was employed by Hay Group (Hay Management Consultants) in the UK and UAE from 1985-1990, during which time he became a recognised expert on HR issues in several industries, and did HR consulting working over 20 countries, mainly in the areas of compensation and total rewards. On leaving Hay Group, he joined Emirates Group and Emirates Airline based in Dubai where he worked for 13 years from 1990-2003 and he was promoted to SVP Human Resources with over 60,000 employees in 60 countries. At all times, Robert kept a detailed hands-on role on all remuneration policies globally. In 2003, Robert left Emirates Group to establish his own consulting business focusing on HR and C&B called Lemon Pip Consulting Limited, and over the past 18 years he has developed a very successful specialist consulting practice with over 800 clients globally. His two main areas of specialism are working with clients in the Middle East and Asia regions, and with clients in the global aviation industry (and indeed many other industries).
