Reliability of Job Evaluation: Differences across Sex-Typed Jobs

Recent work has questioned whether a single job evaluation instrument can reliably measure jobs from different job families. To test this, a generalizability study was done to determine the reliability of three job evaluation instruments: one for male-dominated jobs, MIMA-Shop, one for female-domina...

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Published in:Journal of business and psychology 1989-12, Vol.4 (2), p.155-165
Main Authors: Cooper, Elizabeth A., Scholl, Richard W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis of variance
Analytical estimating
Applied psychology
Coefficients
Equal pay for women
Gender bias
Gender discrimination
Incumbents
Job performance evaluation
Statistical variance
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Summary:Recent work has questioned whether a single job evaluation instrument can reliably measure jobs from different job families. To test this, a generalizability study was done to determine the reliability of three job evaluation instruments: one for male-dominated jobs, MIMA-Shop, one for female-dominated jobs, MIMA-office and one which evaluated both types, FES. Initial results indicated that the latter instrument suffered no loss in reliability, and that all three instruments were equally highly reliable. A second analysis evaluated the reliability of the FES for male-dominated jobs separately from the reliability of the FES for female-dominated jobs. These results indicated no significant difference in reliability for male-dominated jobs and for female-dominated jobs. Implications of these findings were discussed.
ISSN:0889-3268
1573-353X
DOI:10.1007/BF01016438