The past few years have forced many organizations to adopt a hybrid work model. A result of this ‘new workplace normal’ has prompted a few questions: Is this model of running an organization viable and helpful in long-term cultural development? What are the pros and...
In understanding job evaluation, organizations are looking to fix significant problems they have with: Job descriptions that are remarkably dated and written to inconsistent standards. Employee engagement levels that are negatively impacted by misunderstanding of...
On Aug. 31, the new Canada Pay Equity Act came into effect across the country. Its purpose was to address systemic and persistent pay discrimination issues within organizations that has disadvantaged women workers for decades. This new act will require federally...
Encompassing Visions has been recognized in the public sector as the most objective, transparent, thorough and effective way to capture job data and evaluate roles across the full spectrum of jobs within organizations. Our best of breed software, with its artificial...
Future of work amidst Covid-19 restrictions is changing the company landscape. Workforce integration factors are key when considering organizational workplace structure. Coronovirus is morphing the face of traditional workplace environments, resulting in important...
Market pricing jobs is the process used to determine the external value of a job. The approach typically uses brief job descriptions and/or general knowledge of the work to benchmark jobs found in the organization's competitive marketplace. Information regarding the...
Pay Equity is becoming federal law in Canada… In response to the report of the House of Commons committee on pay equity, the Government of Canada announced October 29th, 2018 its intention to bring in legislation to better ensure all employees in federally regulated...
Once upon a time, there was an organization. It was a big organization. Many people worked there. The executives of this organization were smart. They read books, attended conferences, and listened closely to wise consultants. They had their own good ideas, too....
In 2001, general manager Billy Beane of Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletic’s (played by Brad Pitt in the 2011 film ‘Moneyball’) proved that measuring the right things would allow mathematics to analyze and cut straight through to where value could be found, with...
Job evaluation, according to Wikipedia, is a systemic way to determine the value (or worth) of one job relative to another in the same organization. The process requires jobs be compared on skill, effort, responsibility and working condition factors. Then, an...
Recent Comments