EPA-04 Personnel administration Unit8 Classification of services(cadres)
Meaning and importance of classification
Classification is the grouping of various positions having similar duties
and responsibilities in one class. classification of services is important
because it
(1)Brings some orderliness into the system and ensures uniform
treatment to those who are grouped together on certain criteria.
(2)Determined the duties, responsibilities, qualification requirements,
salary structure, authority to be vested etc.
(3)Determines the operational jurisdiction of the services and the nature of
the responsibility to be discharged.
(Four advantages of the classification of services)
(1)Facilitates proper division of work.
(2)Remove arbitary standards.
(3)Promotes employee motivation.
(4)Ensures effective manpower planning and utilisation.
(5)Lays down uniform work standards.
(6)Speeds up the recruitment process and its indicates traning needs.
(7)Helps in maining up to date personnel work.
(The types of the classification of services and their features)
(1)Two types of classification of services
(1)Position classification (2)Rank classification
Position classification- is prevalent in the USA. In this system, positions
which are comparable in respect of their functions, duties and responsibili-
ties are brought together into a class. Hence, class consists of those
positions which are similar in relation to the subject to matter, level
of difficulty and responsibility and qualification requirements.
Rank classification system prevails in the britain and india. Here the
employees are classified in a hierarchial order and the salary and status
of a person is determined with reference to the service one is assigned
after the recruitment.
(The pattern of classification of services during the british period)
(1)Classification of services into convenanted and non-convenanted services.
(2)Threefold classfication of services into imperial, provincial and subordinates
services.
(3)Changed brought about in the classification of services under the government
of India Act, 1919.
(Evaluate the present system of classification)
(1)The designation of the officers in India based on rank classfication
system doesn't indicates anything about the functions, duties and
responsiblities. All it indicates is her/his position in the hierarchy
of officials.
(2)The numerical calling in the classification is only a matter of
convenience, as there is constant overlapping of pay criteria in posts
between two different classes.
(3)The system hasn't been designed either to bring about orderly
grouping of services or as a tool of managing the personnel.
(The recommendations of the 3rd and 4th central pay commissions on the
classification of services)
(1)The 3rd central pay commission felt that a scheme of classification
based on the work content at different levels of the various occupational
groups and hence of pay ranges in necessary.
(2)The term class also has to be avoided so as to create a healthy
psychological climate. The existing class of 1,2,3 & 4 are to be
redesigned as A,B,C & D based on certain pay ranges.
(3)The fourth pay commission endorsed the group wise classification of
services and brought about certain changes in the scale of posts falling
in those groups.
Classification is the grouping of various positions having similar duties
and responsibilities in one class. classification of services is important
because it
(1)Brings some orderliness into the system and ensures uniform
treatment to those who are grouped together on certain criteria.
(2)Determined the duties, responsibilities, qualification requirements,
salary structure, authority to be vested etc.
(3)Determines the operational jurisdiction of the services and the nature of
the responsibility to be discharged.
(Four advantages of the classification of services)
(1)Facilitates proper division of work.
(2)Remove arbitary standards.
(3)Promotes employee motivation.
(4)Ensures effective manpower planning and utilisation.
(5)Lays down uniform work standards.
(6)Speeds up the recruitment process and its indicates traning needs.
(7)Helps in maining up to date personnel work.
(The types of the classification of services and their features)
(1)Two types of classification of services
(1)Position classification (2)Rank classification
Position classification- is prevalent in the USA. In this system, positions
which are comparable in respect of their functions, duties and responsibili-
ties are brought together into a class. Hence, class consists of those
positions which are similar in relation to the subject to matter, level
of difficulty and responsibility and qualification requirements.
Rank classification system prevails in the britain and india. Here the
employees are classified in a hierarchial order and the salary and status
of a person is determined with reference to the service one is assigned
after the recruitment.
(The pattern of classification of services during the british period)
(1)Classification of services into convenanted and non-convenanted services.
(2)Threefold classfication of services into imperial, provincial and subordinates
services.
(3)Changed brought about in the classification of services under the government
of India Act, 1919.
(Evaluate the present system of classification)
(1)The designation of the officers in India based on rank classfication
system doesn't indicates anything about the functions, duties and
responsiblities. All it indicates is her/his position in the hierarchy
of officials.
(2)The numerical calling in the classification is only a matter of
convenience, as there is constant overlapping of pay criteria in posts
between two different classes.
(3)The system hasn't been designed either to bring about orderly
grouping of services or as a tool of managing the personnel.
(The recommendations of the 3rd and 4th central pay commissions on the
classification of services)
(1)The 3rd central pay commission felt that a scheme of classification
based on the work content at different levels of the various occupational
groups and hence of pay ranges in necessary.
(2)The term class also has to be avoided so as to create a healthy
psychological climate. The existing class of 1,2,3 & 4 are to be
redesigned as A,B,C & D based on certain pay ranges.
(3)The fourth pay commission endorsed the group wise classification of
services and brought about certain changes in the scale of posts falling
in those groups.
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