Human Resource Issues: Broadbanding Benefits

BROADBANDING
Main Objectives
q Simplify the classification system
q Provide agencies with greater flexibility to meet changing workforce needs
q Reduce the number of job classes, grade levels, & titles
q Allow for position specific recruitment
Definition of Broad Banding
q Broad banding is an attractive alternative to rigid structured, specialized and hierarchical organizations.
q A strategy for salary structures that consolidate a large number of pay grades.
q An approach to compensation that focuses on performance and market, uses a few, wide salary bands to deliver pay.
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