Job Evaluation And Its Effects On Organizational Performance Case Study: First Merchant International Trading Company

ABSTRACT

The main aim of the study / research was to investigate the effects

of job evaluation to the performance of an organization.

During the practical field wo/1111 in First Merchant International Trading

Company within Kampala District, the research was conducted freely

and successful.

The research found out on close analysis that there are quite many

effects of job evaluation to the performance of the organization

which are both positive and negative to the organisational success.

The study was designed to investigate the effects deep in the

organisations. The study considered administrators, (top level

managers), supervisors (middle level managers) and casual

labourers.

The research questions were used to investigate the objectives of the study. The study highlighted various effects of job evaluation in

respect of performance of the organisation.

The main instruments of data collection were: interviews,

questionnaires, observation and Focus Group Discussions. The

information collected was edited, coded and tabulated manually

before feeding into the computer.

The findings revealed that the1·e is little involvement of First

Merchant International Trading Company in evaluating its job despite of the need.

The study further revealed that most of the workers are not informed about job evaluation and not sensitized about it by the people concerned. For example the human resource manager.