One aspect of the Jobscore job evaluation system is that every job in an organisation contributes to the organisation as a whole. The level of this contribution varies from minimal to extremely important depending on the job's role in the organisation. Another Jobscore consideration is that the more complex the organisation's products/services and markets, and the larger the organisation, the greater the level of skill required to manage its affairs. For each individual organisation within which jobs are to be evaluated, Jobscore records certain factors to describe the organisation's complexity. The factors are: the organisation’s product/service range, the diversity of the markets for its products/services, the geographic scope of its markets, and the industry and size of the organisation.
How do I determine the organisation that contains a job?
In the Jobscore context an 'organisation' can be anything from a complete, multi-national corporation to, for example, a small, regional branch office. For the purposes of evaluating a job in Jobscore, choose the largest organisational unit that the job can reasonably have any measureable influence upon.
For example, consider an organisation consisting of a corporate office and a number of regional operations. In this structure the organisation to be considered for roles in the corporate office would be the entire corporation. For roles in the regional operations the organisation to be considered would be the regional operation. If the regional operation included sub-branches, and some employees in that sub-branch are only associated with that sub-branch, for example a receptionist, then for such employees the sub-branch would be the appropriate organisation to choose.
Further consideration of the sub-branch concept is warranted as there may be particular jobs in the sub-branch that provide for example, important, ongoing market intelligence to the larger regional operation. In such cases the organisation to be considered is the regional operation. Jobscore specifies a scaling factor allowing you to moderate as appropriate the overall impact such role has on the larger regional operation.
Steps to create and specify an organisation:
- The starting point is the Jobscore Main Menu:
- Select Company Parameter on this menu to display the Company List screen. (Note - Jobscore uses the word 'company' and 'organisation' interchangeably.)
This screen lists any existing companies created by your user name, and provides a button to create a new organisation.
- Click the button Create New Company to display the Record Company Parameters screen:
Shown above is an example of a completed Record Company Parameters screen. The screen is initially displayed with blank data entry fields. For your own identification purposes enter a number and a name for your new company/organisation.
Select the main industry sector containing the company. Generally this is the sector that provides the greatest part of the company's revenue or, for non-profit organisations, the sector consuming the greatest part of its budget. Select the industry from the drop-down list that appears when the downward pointing arrow to the right of the data entry area is clicked. Scroll down the list if necessary.
In a similar, manner indicate the diversity of markets the organisation services; its product diversity or diversity of services provided; and the geographic scope of its operations.
The revenue/budget figure provided interacts with a
Price Deflator when creating evaluations for jobs in this company.
The button labelled Help on this screen will display the section of the on-line Jobscore manual that describes and defines levels of complexity for the parameters Market Diversity, Product Diversity and Geographic Scope. Clicking the Help button will display the relevant section of the Manual in a separate window as follows:
Select the links on this Manual display screen to show a definition of levels in these parameters.
Finally, enter the total current annual revenue for the organisation, or total annual operating expenditure budget for not-for-profit organisations.
- Click the Save button to record your entries.
The newly created company's information is then re-displayed using the Edit Company Parameters screen. This Edit screen can be used to make changes to the entries. (Click the Save button on the Edit screen to save any changes.)
The screen shows the user name and the exact time that the screen was last updated by the user.
The edit screen includes a Delete button to delete this entry entirely. Note that if any job evaluations have been created that are associated with this company, they will also be deleted.
The Company List button displays a list of companies created by the user.
The buttons Previous and Next steps through and displays entries in the company list (if there is more than one company's details recorded by the user).
Now that the organisation containing the job to be evaluated is created and specified, the next step is to evaluate a job within the organisation. To proceed with a job evaluation select the Job Evaluation button on the Edit screen.
To create additional companies.
From the Jobscore Main Menu, select the Company Parameters option to display the Company List screen. Use the Create New Company button on the Company List screen, to display a fresh Record Company Parameters screen where details of the new company can be recorded.
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