{"id":7520,"date":"2020-11-10T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=7520"},"modified":"2020-12-18T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T01:50:37","slug":"how-to-go-about-implementing-a-job-leveling-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/how-to-go-about-implementing-a-job-leveling-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Go about Implementing a Job Leveling Framework?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7563\" src=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling1-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A job consists of various critical elements that are essential to achieve enterprise outcomes\u2014i.e., talent and behavioral requirements, role, and responsibilities. \u00a0Jobs that are configured inadequately bread disputes, negative perceptions, inequality, and frustration.\u00a0 On the other hand, structured jobs, appropriate distribution of work, justified authority levels, and correct estimation of value of individual jobs are the signs of effective <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/stream\/human-resources\">Human Capital Management<\/a> function.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a structured job design\u2014or ill-defined jobs\u2014renders the organizations ineffective and burdened with excessive staffing and payroll costs. \u00a0This warrants from the leadership to plan and undertake a Job Leveling\u00a0initiative. \u00a0Job Leveling is a disciplined approach to gauge the value of work for individual positions across the organization.\u00a0 It entails ascertaining the nature of work done by each position, authority levels, and the effect of each job on business results.\u00a0 The initiative is critical in administering rewards structures.<\/p>\n<p>However, Job Leveling is a concern at most organizations\u2014not many people are satisfied with the value assigned to their roles.\u00a0 The absence of proper\u2014or inadequate\u2014job levels yields grave consequences for the entire organization.\u00a0 Jobs valued higher than their actual value lead to wastage of resources, whereas low valued jobs are perceived as offensive and inculcate demotivation.<\/p>\n<p>Job Design and Job Leveling is essential when organizations consistently encounter these issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constant employees complaints and demands to reclassify jobs<\/li>\n<li>Excessive job titles<\/li>\n<li>Widespread dissatisfaction with remuneration<\/li>\n<li>Task \/ processes redundancy<\/li>\n<li>Financial outflow<\/li>\n<li>Staffing imbalances and top heavy structure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Workforce planners should use a <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/flevypro\/hr-strategy-job-leveling-5328\">Job Leveling Framework<\/a> to methodically benchmark the value of jobs at their organizations.\u00a0 To accomplish this, they need to first analyze all the activities required under each position, the professional competences and demeanor essential to perform those activities, and gauging the effect each position has on business results.<\/p>\n<p>Implementing a Job Leveling Framework simplifies the allocation of jobs in a harmonized job hierarchy, establishes consistency across the HR Initiatives, develops clear paths for growth, and improves <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/business-toolkit\/decision-making\">decision making<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/stream\/human-resources\">Human Resources<\/a> practitioners need to follow these 5 key phases to implement a Job Leveling Framework and structure job levels at their organizations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ensure Readiness of Pre-Implementation Groundwork<\/li>\n<li>Engage Business Leaders in Implementation<\/li>\n<li>Set up Clear Governance Structures<\/li>\n<li>Employ User-friendly Job Evaluation Management Tools<\/li>\n<li>Establish Clear Communication Mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/flevypro\/hr-strategy-job-leveling-5328\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7564\" src=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling-Framework-Implementation.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1002\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling-Framework-Implementation.png 1002w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling-Framework-Implementation-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Job-Leveling-Framework-Implementation-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dive deeper into the first 3 phases of the Job Leveling Framework Implementation, for now.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ensure Readiness of Pre-Implementation Groundwork <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Human Resource practitioners should first analyze their existing job architecture, job natures, roles and responsibilities, and <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/stream\/culture\">Organizational Culture<\/a> to initiate the Job Leveling process.\u00a0 Specifically, they have to answer these queries to identify the right Job Levelling method:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the key objective to be achieved by implementing the Job Leveling initiative? Is it to improve compensation, shape career paths, or alleviate pay equity concerns?<\/li>\n<li>Who will be the users of the Job Leveling system? Will it be managed by <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/stream\/human-resources\">Human Resources<\/a> experts or business leaders?<\/li>\n<li>The Job Leveling exercise will impact which employees? How many roles, their nature of jobs, locations?<\/li>\n<li>Define the organizational culture and values. Is it hierarchical, centralized, or cost-focused?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Engage Business Leaders in Implementation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Effective Job Levelling Implementation necessitates involvement of business leaders from the onset of the exercise. \u00a0Engaging business managers and employees can hold back the pace of implementation because of conflicting views and ideas, but this is essential for the success of Job Leveling. \u00a0The right engagement involves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting agreement and support from senior business leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Including business leaders in calibration of key roles for support later during execution phase.<\/li>\n<li>Coaching key line managers and including them in job evaluation sessions to ensure adequate understanding of the roles and to develop program sponsors during implementation.<\/li>\n<li>Including key employees during the design phase of Job Leveling to remove any suspicion and win their agreement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Set up Clear Governance Structures<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Establishing effective control mechanisms is essential to avoid any glitches in implementing coherent job levels. \u00a0Job Leveling initiatives in large multinational corporations fail because of dearth of appropriate governance mechanisms in place. \u00a0A few organizations adopt centralized controls whereas others employ decentralized, locally-driven governance protocols. \u00a0To execute clear yet robust governance mechanisms, organizations should follow these key tenets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Governance principles should correspond to the organizational culture.<\/li>\n<li>Stakeholders should be held accountable with clear roles.<\/li>\n<li>Authorities should be assigned to ensure proper control mechanisms.<\/li>\n<li>All concerned people should be engaged in the initiative.<\/li>\n<li>Decision making authorities should be clearly defined.<\/li>\n<li>Resources should be effectively deployed.<\/li>\n<li>Promote fairness by applying rules equally, or if not, rationale is clearly explained.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested in learning more about the other phases of Job Leveling Implementation and Job Leveling methods? You\u00a0can download\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\/flevypro\/hr-strategy-job-leveling-5328\">an editable PowerPoint on <strong>HR Strategy: Job Leveling Framework Implementation<\/strong> here<\/a> on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/browse\">Flevy documents marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Do You Find Value in This Framework?<\/h2>\n<p>You can download in-depth presentations on this and hundreds of similar business frameworks from the <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/pro\/library\">FlevyPro Library<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/flevy.com\/pro\">FlevyPro<\/a> is trusted and utilized by 1000s of management consultants and corporate executives. Here&#8217;s what some have to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My FlevyPro subscription provides me with the most popular frameworks and decks in demand in today\u2019s market. 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