Precise job evaluation requires component grading with weighted totals

Evidence

Moses said that the first step had to be a reform of the city’s efficiency-rating system, the system of ratings given by supervisors to their subordinates to help determine whether to promote a civil service employee or give him a pay raise; under the present method, ratings didn’t give the Civil Service Commission enough information for a sound judgment. … Making an evaluation system precise was perhaps the most difficult job in civil service, Moses explained; each job had to be broken down into component parts, so that each part could be graded, and in totaling the grades each part had to be given a mathematical weight corresponding to its importance in the job as a whole. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 308

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moses believed human personality and judgment could be reduced to exact numbers; Precise job evaluation requires decomposing roles into weighted component parts — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 309; Scientific job analysis broke work into gradable components — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 317