jMetrics is a universal job evaluation system capable of capturing and reliably measuring the differences between a variety of jobs on the basis of skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. Furthermore, the system is able to deal effectively with concerns over issues pertaining to internal and external pay equity (e.g., legitimate and defensible valuation of diverse tasks and responsibilities and external market comparisons that is more than a mere matching of titles.)
The Job Evaluation System (JES) software is designed to make the job evaluation process efficient, cost-effective and promotes consistency across your organization. jMetrics is designed to work in conjunction with any point factor job evaluation system. It allows the user the opportunity to manage the job evaluation exercise by containing all the job data and evaluation results into one database that can be accessed for the purpose of analysis, interpretation and reporting.
The system generates a number of record-keeping reports that provide a representational image of where you are at any point in time during the job evaluation exercise. For example, the Job Evaluation Summary provides the evaluation committee with a track record of the evaluative decisions made to-date. The analysis and interpretation component of the package allows the user the opportunity to interrogate the data so as to reveal possible inconsistencies, biases, contradictions, gaps and general contaminants that could lessen the validity of the evaluation exercise. These reports are necessary for documenting and justifying the evaluative process and results (an important feature given the requirements of regulatory legislation as well as the demands by all stakeholders that the process and results be credible and be able to show documentary evidence to support the claim).
The analysis and interpretation component of the package allows the user the opportunity to interrogate the data so as to reveal possible inconsistencies, biases, contradictions, gaps and general contaminants that could lessen the validity of the evaluation exercise. These reports are necessary for documenting and justifying the evaluative process and results (an important feature given the requirements of regulatory legislation as well as the demands by all stakeholders that the process and results be credible and be able to show documentary evidence to support the claim).
Apart from the analytical and reporting advantages, jMetrics also provides the following advantages:
- It reduces the complexity of conducting and maintaining job evaluation and salary/wage determination. It facilitates the process for developing and maintaining Pay Equity, Internal Equity and External Equity;
- It reduces, or potentially eliminates, human error in the compilation, computation and generation of compensation reports and analysis;
- It increases the flexibility and opportunity for economic model building and testing – determining relations between various variables, conducting regression analysis (both linear and non-linear) for the purpose of pay policy development and proportional value compliance with Pay Equity Legislation, etc.; and
- It increases the simplicity, speed and accuracy or maintenance and report generation.
- It makes effective use of technology.
- It provides support for staff development.
- It will emphasize communications at all levels.
- It will promote the effective use of policies and procedures.
- It will provide a climate that promotes respect for the individual and does not tolerate discrimination.
