Job Levelling Global Grading System and
Job Levelling Global Grading System and
Towers Watson’s systematic approach to job levelling In combination, the delivery of these programmes
helps organisations manage the opportunities and through job levelling offers a flexible, adaptable
challenges of talent and reward programme design means of communicating career paths, facilitating
and delivery, including: talent mobility and delivering competitive rewards.
• Aligning jobs located in multiple regions or Job levelling also addresses business needs
across different lines of business. ranging from attraction, engagement and retention
• Creating a framework that integrates of key talent, to cost and risk management, to
employees after a merger, acquisition or governance. The key benefits of job levelling for
other structural change. your organisation include:
• Driving consistency, competitiveness and
• A career framework that aligns with business needs
efficiency among HR policies and practices.
and strategy.
• Clarifying distinctions among levels to support
• A common language to describe career paths,
career development.
job requirements and performance expectations.
• Linkages to organisational and job-family
The benefits of job levelling
competencies.
Job levelling is an analytical process that can • Consistent mapping of jobs to external market data.
determine the relative value of jobs in your • Contributes to cost-efficient talent and reward
organisation. It provides a foundation for reward programmes and delivery.
and talent management programmes, including: • Helps ensure internal equity.
• Base pay. Research indicates that organisations that implement
• Short- and long-term incentives. globally consistent job levelling are up to two and a
• Career management. half times as likely to report more effective talent
• Workforce planning. and reward programmes. These include performance
• Succession planning. management, competency models, and leadership
• Learning and development. assessment and development.
Competency model
Job levelling
A systematic process of determining the relative value of jobs in an organisation
Inputs
Business Reward and Job Employee Market
context talent strategy content data data
The Towers Watson approach Global Grading System
We offer a range of job levelling approaches, GGS is a job levelling tool for determining internal job
from established methodologies to custom levels based on an analysis of universally applicable
implementations. Our GGS and Career Map job factors proven to recognise differences in job size.
levelling tools are not only more flexible than GGS accommodates organisations of all sizes,
traditional methods, but also easy to implement, and uses an organisation’s size, complexity and
understand and manage. They can be geographic breadth to assess the number of levels
implemented individually or in tandem, in its grading framework. It then evaluates jobs as
and are: part of a two-step process of banding and grading:
banding places jobs in the framework based on how
• Transparent and objective.
they contribute to the organisation, reflecting a dual
• Easy to explain and administer, with limited
career path; the grading step assesses jobs against
bureaucracy or dependency on consultants.
standard factors.
• Able to accommodate dual career paths
(individual contributor and managerial). GGS provides opportunities for a tailored
• Aligned with market data. implementation within a rigorous and defensible
• Supportive of organisational change. process for job evaluation. It also ensures
• Culturally neutral and applicable worldwide. consistency in the development of a career
• Supported by web-based technology. framework that balances internal equity and
external competitiveness.
Top management
Middle management
Supervisor
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Individual contributor
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career path
Professional
Clerical/administrative
Manual
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Career Map Figure 03. Career Map levelling criteria sample
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