Page 2 College Station, Texas Wednesday, July 7, 1971 THE BATTALION READ BATTALION CLASSIFIEDS Graduates give county job evaluation, pay plan By DEBI BLACKMON A job evaluation plan and new pay structure for the employes of Brazos County, recommending particular raises and salary cuts, was submitted to the Brazos County Commissioners Court last month by a team of A&M grad uate students. The study, instituted at the re quest of County Judge W. R. “Bill” Vance, was carried out as CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle JuL.^ 7/ “It was nice of you to offer individual help if we needed it during the course. Could we begin with th’ second week so I can get ready for finals?” Campus viewpoint by Herman Gutierrez ' V' our secretaries will be calling you soon! a spring semester project by a 12-student Wage and Salary Seminar group from the College of Business Administration. Referring to the report, Vance said, “I think we’ll take it into consideration. I don’t know how much weight it will be given.” The plan, reviewed by the com missioners during their June meeting, uses a method alloting points for each job according to working conditions, responsibili ties, efforts and skills. Dr. Leonard R. Burgess, man agement professor, said the re port was done as partial fulfill ment of the graduate manage ment class requirement. Burgess explained the report is not meant to have any immediate effect on county employees. Rather, he said, the job evaluation plan measures the relative worth of jobs within the county govern ment. In the formulation of the plan the students were divided into three teams — a psycho-socio team which decided on the com position of the job evaluation committee; a team which devised the point method; and the inter viewing team. One student team was com posed of David P. Lindecamp, Michael Burns and Frank S. Simpson, and the other included Lawrence D. Petrash, Robert S. Heger, and Simpson. The point method team devel oped three point systems, all based on factors which consider different types of working con ditions. The factors are assigned maximum point values. The job evaluation committee then rated the degree of each factor on jobs by alloting a point value (the average of each mem ber’s rating) to each of the coun ty jobs reviewed. Only 30 of the 90 county posi tions were used to compile the study. During preparation of the re port, students questioned each of the 30 employes concerning what job they perform, who they re port to, what their duties are, what equipment they utilize, un usual responsibilities, working conditions, physical and mental conditions and educational re quirements. “We went back to the employes and their supervisors to make sure they were reasonably satis fied with the job descriptions,” Burgess said. Each job was plotted on a dia gram according to present an nual pay and the number of points assigned to the job. A regression line, or line of best fit, was drawn to express the prevailing relationship be tween present pay and point scores of the 30 jobs. On the 40 per cent pay range scale requested by the commis sioners, rate range boxes were drawn to establish maximum and minimum wages for that job. This method allows a man to be judged worth more than another in the same job category because of considerations such as senior ity or merit. The Episcopal Church WELCOMES YOU ANY SUNDAY St. Andrews, Bryan 217 West 26th Services June: 8 a. m. and 10 a. m. July & August 7:15 a. m. and 10 a. m. St. Thomas, College Station 906 Jersey St. South Side of Campus Services 8:00 a. m. and 9:15 a. m. Adult Class 10:30 a. m. Try kindness toward your home planet and its residents, and smile, God believes in you. Cbe Battalion Opinions expressed in The Battalion are those of the student writers only. 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MIDDLEBROOKE The plan recommends that if the court adopts the 40 per cent pay range, five employees should be granted raises totaling $2,311 per year. “Employe dissatisfaction, and inefficiency, frequently result from feelings that some employes are paid more than—or less than — they should be, compared to their fellow employees, for the jobs they do,” Burgess said. “Basically, what we did was convert the various jobs to a common denominator — points. The points determined what each job was worth in relation to the other jobs performed around it, not taking in consideration any aspects of the individuals who occupy the jobs or their merits. “Being able to carry out a method like this one in a real life situation has really proven to be quite exciting for the people in volved, and has shown them ac tual use of the evaluation meth ods,” Burgess said. 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