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.


     

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