The Comparable Worth Debate

8/7/2019 The Comparable Worth Debate

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Submitted by:

Sahil Chadha(A21)

Rahul Targotra(A17)Raghu(A16)

Sonica Rajput(A18)

Iqball(A20)

Harinderjit Kaur(A19)


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The economic and social theory that jobs of equalvalue should entail compensation. The termComparable worth emerged following passage of the

Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was applied to both racialand sexual discrimination. Comparable worth is thestudy finding would be used as the basis for anyfurther pay adjustment. Lexington Memorial hospitalwas suffering from the discontent concerning paylevels. So the administration agreed to launch a jobevaluation program on the basis of comparable worth.


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yComparable worth means that jobswhich require comparable

abilities, knowledge, and skills,should be paid the samewage/salary rate irrespective of theemployee's age, race, sex or anyother difference.


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y Job evaluation is a practical technique, designed to enabletrained and experienced staff to judge the size of one jobrelative to others. It does not directly determine pay levels,but will establish the basis for an internal ranking of jobs.

y The two most common methods of job evaluation thathave been used are first, whole job ranking, where jobs aretaken as a whole and ranked against each other. The secondmethod is one of awarding points for various aspects of thejob. In the points system various aspects or parts of the job

such as education and experience required to perform thejob are assessed and a points value awarded - the higher theeducational requirements of the job the higher the pointsscored.


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Strength

y Well probably find some pretty disturbing gaps withthe use of comparable worth.

y Several Countries like Minnesota and others citygovernment have implemented the comparable worthconcept.

y We might create internal pay equity across our jobs

with the comparable worth.


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y Comparable worth is precedent in public sector only.

y For private sector it is uncharted and dangerousterritory.

y Comparable worth is very questionable concepty It is very costly concept while we implement it.

y While implementing comparable worth it would notaddress our needs to be externally competitive.


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y While implementing Comparing worth we can easilyfind gap between the gender.

y When we conduct the evaluation, we must evaluate

each factor of the job.y After implementing the comparable worth we will

have the opportunities to actively closed much of thegender based wage gap.


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y If we implement comparable worth it may leads todestroy our free market system.

y Threat of unionization.

y It might create internal pay equity across our jobs.


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The Conclusion can be derived from this debate is thatthe job evaluation program should be launched on thebasis of Comparable worth. Because in this the

employer should paid on the basis of their abilities,skills and knowledge instead of their age, sex andother difference. It helps to remove the sexdiscrimination. Comparable worth is opening the doorto very developing business and countries also. Severalcountries and their cities welcome this policy for theirbusiness.

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