Question

As is known to all, the organization and management of wages and salaries are very complex.

Generally speaking, the Accounts Department is responsible for calculations of pay, while the Personnel Department(人事部) is interested in discussions with the employees about pay.

If a firm wants to adopt a new wage and salary structure, it is essential that the firm should decide on a method of job evaluation(估價) and ways of measuring the performance of its employees. In order to be successful, that new pay structure will need agreement between Trade Unions and employers.

 In job evaluation, all the requirements of each job are defined in a detailed job description. Each of those requirements is given a value, usually in “points”, which are added together to give a total value for the job. For middle and higher management, a special method is used to evaluate managers on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility, and their ability to solve problems.

Because of the difficulty in measuring management work, however, job grades for managers are often decided without reference to an evaluation system based on points.

 In attempting to design a pay system, the Personnel Department should compare the value of each job with those in the job market. It should also consider economic factors such as the cost of living and the labor supply.

 It is necessary that payment for a job should vary with any differences in the way that the job is performed. Where it is simply to measure the work done, as in the work done with the hands, monetary（貨幣的） encouragement schemes are often chosen; for indirect workers, where measurement is difficult, methods of additional payments are employed.

Topic: How to organize and (1)_______wages and salaries
Procedures	Contexts
(3)______ on a method of job evaluation and ways of(4) _________the performance of its employees	Trade Unions and employers need to (2)________ an agreement on the new pay structure
Defining the requirements of each job in (5)________ and giving each of those requirements a value.	For managers, job evaluation should be (6)______ on their knowledge of the job, their responsibility and their ability to solve problems.
Comparing the value of each job and considering (7)_____ factors.	The value of each job can be decided in (8)_______ with those in the job market.
Adjusting the payment according to any differences in the way that the job is (9)___________.	Monetary encouragement schemes are often chosen to measure the work done by (10)______, while additional payments are often used for indirect workers.

Answer 1

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