Ready made versus custom made systems of job evaluation

Abstract

The worth of a ready made system of job evaluation was compared with that of one constructed to fit the peculiarities of the jobs being evaluated. 50 jobs in a textile mill were involved in the study. The correlation of the evaluations for the 50 jobs was .90 ± .018 but there were only 3 jobs that received exactly the same evaluation by both systems. Using the tailor made system as the criterion, 19 of the jobs were misevaluated by the Smyth-Murphy system by one-half sigma value or more. This difference, when translated to pay differences is significant to the extent that although a tailor made system requires more effort, the improvement in accuracy would seem to justify it. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)