Define a job evaluation and explain what a job evaluation is used to determine.Your response should be at least 300 words in length. 

Compensation and Benefits Unit 3 assessment

PLEASE USE APA FORMAT FOR ALL CITATIONS

Course Textbook

Milkovich, G. T., Newman, J. M., & Gerhart, B. (2014). Compensation (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

1.    Why are job analyses important in an organization? Describe the information that should be included in a job analysis as well as methods for collecting it. Also explain the connection that exists among job analysis, job description, and job specification.Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

2.    Define a job evaluation and explain what a job evaluation is used to determine.Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

3. Distinguish external competitiveness policies from internal alignment policies. What is external competitiveness? What factors shape an organization’s external competitiveness? Why is external competitiveness so important?Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

4. What is the purpose of a survey? How would you design a survey for setting pay for welders? How would you design a survey for setting pay for financial managers? Do the issues differ? Will the techniques used and the data collected differ? Why or why not?Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

Unit Assignments

Course Textbook

Milkovich, G. T., Newman, J. M., & Gerhart, B. (2014). Compensation (11th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Unit II PowerPoint Presentation

You are the human resource manager of a local university, and you have been asked to explain the differences in compensation among instructors, assistant professors, associate professors, and full professors as there has been some question as to how compensation is determined for these different positions. Using the information you have learned within this unit, create a PowerPoint Presentation describing how the different compensation levels were determined.

Your presentation should consist of no less than seven slides, not including the title slide and reference slides. Be sure to cite all references using APA format.