Job Evaluation and Grade Structures Masterclass
Developing and Implementing Effective Job Evaluation Systems and Building Grade Structures in order to Meet Business Needs and Drive Employee Performance and Organisation Effectiveness.
Accredited by HRD Future and the Course Trainer
Offered virtually in five half-day sessions
29, 30, 31 May, 01, 02 Jun 2023
Course Trainer

Robert Mosley
Expert Leader in compensation and benefits, performance management
Robert Mosley was awarded the “Global HR Leadership Award” in 2017 by the World HR Congress to recognize his iconic contribution to the global C&B community over the past decade. He is truely one of the leading HR trainers in the world today, and is in the “Global Guru #500 List”.
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 25 years.
Robert was born and educated in London (in UK) and he graduated with a MA masters degree in Mathematics from Oxford University (in UK) in 1983, and then obtained his MBA masters degree in business studies from London Business School (in the UK) and Chicago Business School (in the USA) in 1985. He then became a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (in UK) with an FCIPD qualification, after deciding to focus on HR.
Who Should Attend
This course is suitable for everyone who requires an appreciation or an in-depth knowledge of determining the grades of jobs and the value of jobs, and everyone who needs to understand the concepts and techniques of job evaluation, and everyone who needs to be able to build and design grade structures, including all employees in all areas of Human Resources at all professional levels of VPs/Directors/ Managers/Specialists/Analysts/Generalists, and this course is designed for the all of the following participants:
All managers and professionals and specialist who work in any area of HR.
All specialists in HR who work in Compensation and Remuneration and Rewards.
All specialists in HR who work in Organisation Design and Organisation Effectiveness.
All specialists in HR who work in Performance Management and Performance Appraisals.
Course Introduction
A fundamental component of reward management and HR management is a grade and salary structure, and these are often taken for granted. Rather than make 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.
Key Benefits Of Attending
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 are 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.
What You’ll Learn
This online course 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 five half-days online 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, both 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. This online course is aimed at both HR Generalists and Reward Specialists to help you design and review your grading structure to ensure you evolve with a best-practice system.
Course Methodology
You will be provided with the information you need to establish a job evaluation system and make changes to your grading structure. You will have an opportunity to test various ideas and to establish what may work for you. You will be given access to various tools and techniques, as well as information on the latest trends and developments. This course will involve working in teams on practical case studies to gain detailed hands-on experience of evaluating jobs using the various tools and techniques that will be discussed throughout the course.
Course Case Studies
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 in Asia:
- Selecting the most appropriate job evaluation system
- Building the internal case for review/design of a new grading/salary structure
- Designing the most appropriate grade structure
- The debate of single-step grades versus double-step grades versus broad-banding