Classification of Staff

Various awards and Enterprise Agreements make reference to staff classifications. For a variety of reasons, some organisations find this task onerous or divisive and, in many cases, there is an apparent lack of objectivity in the process.

As a consequence there are two likely outcomes, neither of which is conducive to organisational efficiency. The first example is when the organisation agrees to upgrade positions on request rather than instituting an appraisal process. Salary bracket creep can be considerable in these cases.

Alternatively, decisions on position classification or re-classification are made unilaterally or subjectively without transparency to employees. The emergence of "winners’ and "losers’ in this system can be quite detrimental to staff morale.

Dermody Consulting can provide an independent assessor who is skilled in assessing position classifications and who can utilise a clearly defined process to present recommendations to management. As potential staff conflict is lessened significantly with the use of an external assessor, the exercise is not only less confrontational at the organisational level but is also very cost effective.

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