Reliability of abbreviated job evaluation scales

Abstract

Raters in 4 industrial organizations evaluated a standard set of job descriptions and specifications for 35 representative salaried jobs on a standard manual of the point rating type containing 12 factors. The Wherry-Doolittle selection method was applied to the standard manual factor ratings submitted by analysts in 3 companies. Differences in the 3 companies with respect to the order in which the factors were identified were apparently due to differences among the raters, since the jobs rated and the job evaluations manual used were constant for all raters. Applications of the 3 abbreviated scales resulted in all of the jobs remaining in the same or the adjacent labor grade when compared with the original classification. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)