Skills Management
Job Roles and Job Architecture in a Skills-Based Organization
Ask a company how many job titles it has and the answer is usually a number that embarrasses someone. In 18 years of implementations we have routinely seen a title count that is a third of the headcount, sometimes higher. Titles multiply because they are cheap to create and expensive to reconcile, and because for years they were the only vocabulary HR had for describing work.
Quick reference: Job Roles and Job Architecture — the short version of this post, with the one table that matters.
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Aug 25 · 9 min