Generalizability analysis of a point method job evaluation instrument: A field study

Abstract

Three employee relations workers at an energy resource company evaluated 12 jobs, using an 8-scale point method instrument consisting of 3 factors—skill, responsibility, and work environment. Results confirm earlier findings that jobs, scales, and their interaction provide the major sources of variances in the ratings and that the variance attributable to raters was small. A generalizability coefficient of .92 was found when the analysis was generalized to only 1 random rater. It is suggested that point method job evaluations can exhibit high agreement between raters combined with high discriminability between scales and jobs in organizational settings. (8 ref) (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)