Broad banding is a job grading structure that falls between using spot salaries vs. many job grades to determine what to pay particular positions and incumbents within those positions.
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3. Broad banding
• Broad banding is a job
grading structure that falls
between using spot salaries
vs. many job grades to
determine what to pay
particular positions and
incumbents within those
positions.
4. Broad banding
• While broadbanding gives
the organization using it
some broad job
classifications, it does not
have as many distinct job
grades as traditional salary
structures do
5. Broad banding
• Thus, broadbanding reduces
the emphasis on ‘status’ or
hierarchy and places more of
an emphasis on lateral job
movement within the
company.
6. Broad banding
• In a broadbanding structure
an employee can be more
easily rewarded for lateral
movement or skills
development, whereas in
traditional multiple grade
salary structures pay
progression happens
primarily via job promotion.
In this way, broadbanding is
a more flexible pay system.
7. Broad banding
• This flexibility, however, can
lead to internal pay relativity
problems as there isn’t as
much control over salary
progression as there would
be within a traditional multi-
level grading structure.
10. Broad banding
• For a suitable organization in
the right cultural setting,
broadbanding can do the
following:
– Reward performance more
efficiently – as the pay ranges
are wide, the company has
the flexibility to reward a star
performer, even when they
aren’t getting promoted.
11. Broad banding
• For a suitable organization in
the right cultural setting,
broadbanding can do the
following:
– Take the emphasis off of job
evaluation – because the
number of levels have been
reduced, job evaluation can
be streamlined as there aren’t
as many distinct grades that
need to be considered when
slotting a job into the
structure.
12. Broad banding
• For a suitable organization in
the right cultural setting,
broadbanding can do the
following:
– Manage a flexible/mobile
workforce – for companies that
have staffing needs that change
frequently or are difficult to predict,
or work within a business
environment that is in flux,
broadbanding offers a program that
is easier to maintain than a
traditional system with many
distinct levels.
13. Broad banding
• One concern noted by
companies that have
implemented broadbanding
is that compensation costs
may go up. This is due to the
wider than normal band
taking away that more
gradated top end control on
salary levels.
14. Broad banding
• This can be effectively
managed through the use of
market data, in order to help
managers to validate their
pay decisions for a particular
employee to the external
market before proceeding to
give higher than normal pay
increases.
15. Broad banding
• Broadbanding, like other
grading systems, relies on
the buy-in of all key
stakeholders including the
business managers, HR
managers, and employees.
16. Broad banding
• Tailored communication to
each of these groups will go
a long way towards ensuring
the successful
implementation of a
broadbanding program.