Precise job evaluation requires decomposing roles into weighted component parts

Evidence

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. But he knew how to do it, he said. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 309

Categorization

• XREF: This decomposition-and-weighting approach foreshadows the rational planning method Moses applies later to parklands and highways; also anticipates modern job-analysis systems. — connects to: Precise job evaluation requires component grading with weighted totals — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 308; Job mechanization repurposes reflection as error and erases interpretive labor — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139; Scientific job analysis broke work into gradable components — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 317

Broader Connections

• Precise job evaluation requires component grading with weighted totals #corroborates (0.93) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 308
• Scientific job analysis broke work into gradable components #corroborates (0.88) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 317
• Job mechanization repurposes reflection as error and erases interpretive labor #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1139