Armstrong's Job Evaluation Handbook: A Guide to Achieving Fairness and Transparency in Pay and Reward

by Michael Armstrong

Job evaluation is key to ensuring that employees are compensated fairly for their work. It is therefore essential that HR professionals have a robust process in place so that pay and reward are transparent and defensible within teams and across departments. Armstrong's Job Evaluation Handbook gives HR professionals all the tools they need to assess which approach to job evaluation is most suitable, how to implement it and how to maintain it. Packed with case studies from leading organizations such as Microsoft, Vodafone and the NHS, this guide will provide HR professionals with the ability to answer key questions such as how can we decide what is fair to pay our staff? How can we make sure that work of equal value receives equal pay and how can we make sure that our salaries remain competitive in the market?

Armstrong's Job Evaluation Handbook covers everything HR needs to put effective job evaluation in place including how to do analytical matching and market pricing, develop job grades and define pay structures. There is also coverage of the latest trends and issues in job evaluation such as the decline in points-rated systems and the use of levelling by consultants. Underpinned by original research, this is a book that no HR department can afford to be without.

288 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1995

About the author

Michael Armstrong is a 30+ year veteran of the shopping centre industry in Australia, but his time hanging about in shopping centres began as a child when his father was appointed as the first Centre Manager of Phoenix Park shopping centre in the seventies, and then in his teens when he ran the family ice-cream shop.

He began his career leasing shops in Perth as a 20-year-old, rising through the leasing ranks to deliver multiple shopping centre projects, eventually rising to lead the retail leasing teams at Jones Lang LaSalle and Mirvac nationally.

He ultimately ran Jones Lang LaSalle’s national shopping centre business and Mirvac’s national shopping centre division prior to becoming a property consultant. Since then, he has leased shopping centres, helped revitalise The Rocks, and represented the government on the new Sydney Fish Markets development.

The Mall is Michael's first novel. He is finalising the follow-up, Siren, for release in late 2025.

He currently works as a Property Consultant.

Reviews

[Karen ⊰✿ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Job Evaluations are "a subjective process carried out within an objective framework". If you don't know much about Job Evaluations and want to get an in depth introduction, this book is prefect.

Divided into 4 parts, it covers the fundamental characteristics of job evaluation, the three main formal JE schemes, the applications of JEs and the practice of JEs.

The book draws a lot from a 2017 survey of a UK rewards firm, plus some other reference material. It is a bit clinical (not quite academic) and so best suited to HR practitioners who want to understand more about job evaluation and pay structures. There is a bit of UK-specific information in the book which makes it better suited for that market, but it still has quite a lot of relevant information for other markets.

Thanks to the publisher & Netgalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.