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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, July 7, 1971
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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
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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.
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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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