Your Guide To Job Grades

Job Grades are reflective of the hierarchical levels in your organisation. You will upload assigned Job Grades within your employee data, and we’ll do all the work to ensure meaningful reporting in your results. In Workplace Insights (Pro) you’ll be able to see how engagement varies for your Job Grades by the organisation as a whole, and each operational area from divisional/departmental level right through to team level (subject to minimum responses).

If you have opted for basic data only in Workplace Insights, you’ll be able to view some results split by our standard Job Grades. Our standard Job Grades are Director, Senior Manager, Manager, Team Leader / Supervisor and Team Member.

Your language may differ, for instance some common examples might be:

• Board/Executive

• Director

• Head of Department

• Manager without reports

• Manager with reports

• Supervisor

• Team Member

To provide you with benchmarkable data, you’ll map each of your internal Job Grades uploaded in your employee data back to our standard Job Grades.

 Example below:

We can not report data for a demographic with fewer than five responses due to anonymity, so it’s important that you consider this when choosing your Job Grades. In some cases, this may be suitable to do.  You can find out more about how we protect employee anonymity in this article.

Using the example above, you have two Job Grades called ‘managers with direct reports’ and ‘managers without direct reports’ both mapped back to the standard Job Grade of ‘Manager’. One grade has 3 employees in and the other has 6. This would be acceptable as you’d still have the potential to view Job Grade data in Workplace Insights (Pro) by the overall standard ‘Manager’ job grade:

One key recommendation we would make is to try and distinguish between managers with and without direct reports (people managers and non-people managers).  This difference in job grade can have a big impact on the experience of a manager, and can unlock potentially powerful themes. An example of the value of using thorough job grades is below:

28 managers all in one standard manager job grade:

Those 28 managers split into two customised job grades:

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