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John Wilcox is senior editor of 15 HR Specialist newsletters covering employment law, compensation and benefits, as well as theHRSpecialist.com. A journalist who has covered HR, training, organization development and business management for more than 15 years, John keeps his finger on the pulse of what’s working in HR through daily contact with some of the nation’s top HR pros, business people and employment law attorneys.
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said this on 09 Mar 2010 6:10:31 PM EDT
Don't your job descriptions state "and other duties as assigned"?
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said this on 10 Mar 2010 9:18:35 PM EDT
It’s not organizationally possible to enlist an exhaustive list of duties to be performed by any incumbent.
The conventional byline is “these are only illustrative and not exhaustive" This clause should take care. Besides it will also be a good idea to factor in certain weight -age for taking on additional assignments/responsibilities in the performance appraisal process - KRAs . This will systemically provide for an impetus to reach out of the job description framework. At the end of the day, what governs is the work culture of the organization and the supervisors ability to garner his/her resources to extend the team work beyond and ahead. Of course once in a while spot reward for achievements beyond the call of the Role will provide the right impetus and keep the energy level high. Try Mohan M Prasad |
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said this on 11 Mar 2010 12:53:57 PM EDT
In many organizations pay is based more on what types of skills and education are needed to perform the job, not so much on the number of duties. If the people need no further experience to perform the additional duties it's not really necessary to increase their pay. However, if adding the extra responsibilities involves a higher skill level than what they were hired at, consider looking at the pay for that particular job.
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