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WHAT ARE COMPENSABLE FACTORS?.
Compensable factors are paid-for, measurable qualities, features, requirements, or constructs that are common to many different kinds of jobs. Since these factors normally do not represent identifiable job activities, specific observable behaviors, or measurable outputs, they are synthetic in design.
In the 1920s Benge identified five compensable factors- mental requirements, skill requirements, physical requirements, responsibility and working conditions. Lott, Bass and Hay were other pioneers who formulated similar compensable factors. These factors are known as universal compensable factors because they can be used to measure differences among a wide variety of jobs.
Bass Benge NEMA_NMTA FES Hay and Purves Equal pay act.
Skill Mental requirements Skill Knowledge required Know-how Skill.
Responsibility Skill requirements Effort Supervisory controls Problem solving Effort.
Working conditions Physical requirements Responsibility Guidelines Accountability Responsibility.
Responsibility Job conditions Complexity Working conditions.
Working conditions Scope and effect .
Personal contacts .
Purpose of contacts .
Physical demands .
Work environment .
Table 1: Commonly used Compensable factors.
NEMA: National Electrical Manufacturers Association.
NMTA: National Metal Traders Association .
FES: Factor Evaluation System.
Universal compensable factors are the general, relatively abstract and complex qualities and features that relate to all kinds of jobs. To make these abstract universal factors easier to understand relative to the kind of work, employees do while performing their job assignments, a subset of factors is used to further describe each universal factor. These are called sub factors.
Sub factors are statements that define the specific attributes of a job more precisely. .
The second subset of a factor definition involves the development of degrees or levels.