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Job evaluation is important to both employer and employee. It's the cornerstone in the personnel management of your company. You might even say that it's the only instrument available to ensure integration of internal fairness and external competitiveness.

PricewaterhouseCoopers can help you in building and implementing all or part of a job-evaluation system that meets your company's needs.
 
Our Job Evaluation offering

PricewaterhouseCoopers offers different solutions for different situations. We listen carefully to your needs and ask a good many questions in order to arrive at the appropriate answers. We then help you to prepare and devise the process and the tools you will need.

If you wish, we will also guide you through the entire process, e.g. writing job descriptions, design or select a job-evaluation method, implement the chosen method (IFA, STRATA or tailor-made), conduct discussions with unions, give information sessions for employees, roll out the new classification, benchmark the salary structure and implement and maintain it.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has a variety of approaches, which can be adapted according to the nature of your answers. We help you think about:

a system that fits your needs: every industry and company has a specific business and people strategy, cultural differences that require specific needs.
For this reason, PricewaterhouseCoopers provides a variety of systems:
- standardised systems (such as the PricewaterhouseCoopers IFA or STRATA methods)
- customised systems
- Job-Level Matrices

job descriptions: these can be input- or output-oriented depending on your strategy

stakeholder management and communication: e.g. we have an agreement on a “best-practice approach” with unions
 
Job Evaluation Characteristics:
 
There is no such thing as a single, universal job-evaluation system.
A job-evaluation system must underline and enhance corporate strategy.
The number of variable factors must be limited.
The system must include people's competences.
Job descriptions should be operational descriptions that can easily be monitored.
There can be various job evaluation systems depending on target groups and objectives.
Job classification is not a self-contained process but has to be integrated into the HR value chain (recruitment, salary management, performance management, development and career management).
Job classification is not the property of a restricted group of "experts" but belongs to line management and staff.
 
A system that fits your needs

Every industry and company has a specific business and people strategy, cultural differences that require specific needs. For this reason, it is mandatory that the job evaluation is individually tailored to each and every company.

3 approaches can be distinguished:

1. Off-the-shelf system: the PricewaterhouseCoopers IFA or STRATA method
2. 100% customised system
3. A system based on a combination of existing methods (already gathered in a database or customised methods)
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