Pay Your Secretary Fairly with Dimensional Job Grading by N. E. Fried

<body stylesrc="djgfrmain.htm" background="images/greymarbleback.jpg" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#000999" vlink="#8E4C05">  <h1 align="left"><font color="#306161"><em>Introduction</em></font></h1> <h1 align="center">An Objective Approach for Determining Pay and Grade Levels of Secretarial & Administrative Support Staff</h1> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="180"><p align="center"><img src="images/djgpic.gif" width="179" height="318"></td> <td width="50%"><h2 align="center"><font color="#FF0000">Freedom From Rug Ranking...</font></h2> <p align="left"><font size="4">Finally . . . a software system that allows you to easily gather and analyze information to assess fair pay and grade levels for your secretarial and administrative support jobs!</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="4">Capture the work performed in your company so that you can pay your secretaries fairly. This package gives you the information you need to make decisions affecting productivity, exemption status, job evaluation, and more.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="4">The system is highly flexible and can be customized to meet your needs. It offers you a fresh approach to content-based job evaluation by involving secretaries in its design.</font></p> <p align="left"><font size="4">The developer, N. E. Fried and Associates, Inc., is a compensation consulting firm with a sub-specialty in secretarial and administrative support staff pay issues.You can benefit from the firms years of research and knowledge with this powerful, easy-to-use software system.</font></td> </tr> </table> </div> <hr size="6" color="#008080"> <p align="left"><a name="Testimonials"><font color="#397373" size="6"><em><b>Testimonials</b></em></font></a></p> <p align="left"><em><b><font color="#FF0000" size="5">What others are saying about Dimensional Job Grading</font><font color="#FF0000" size="4"><sup><sup>TM</sup></sup></font></b></em></p> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#397373" size="5"><b><i>HRMagazine</i></b></font> <p><em><font size="4">"The Dimensional Job Grading<sup><sup>TM</sup></sup> system is designed to dramatically reduce the influence of the supervisors rank and focus on the work activities of the secretary. The system is made up of an objective, task-based questionnaire, which covers the full range of secretarial duties and can be customized to meet specific company needs. The accompanying software is used to efficiently analyze the responses for each job." </font></em><dl> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Alice M. Starcke, Assistant Editor</strong></font></dd> <dd><a href="http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0797comp.htm"><font size="4"><strong>"An Objective Look at Secretarial Pay and Status"</strong></font></a></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong><a href="http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0797comp.htm"><i>HRMagazine,</i> July 1997</a> </strong></font></dd> <dd><a href="http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0797comp.htm"><font size="4"><strong> <img src="images/djghrmagazine.jpg" align="texttop" border="0" width="67" height="95"></strong></font></a></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#397373" size="5"><em><strong>Weber State University</strong></em></font> <p><font size="4"><em>"We already had a job evaluation system but needed a better way to collect information. The questionnaire gave us instant credibility with our secretarial group and managers. The amount of research that went into this document is evidentthe items are both fresh and accurate."</em></font></p> <p><font size="4"><em>"We have decided to use the questionnaire in lieu of a job description. It helps us save time in terms of what we need to know so we can price the job, and it saves the secretaries time providing the information."</em></font><dl> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Stan Greenhalgh</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>AVP of Human Resources </strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Weber State University</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Ogden, Utah</strong></font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#397373" size="5"><em><strong>The Cleveland Foundation </strong></em></font><p><font size="4"><em>"This system appealed to us because we knew our secretaries were doing very different activities, but our current instrument wasnt drawing out these differences. We found the questionnaire contained items that were easy to understand by both secretaries and managers but could not be easily manipulatedit gave us clean, objective data." </em></font><dl> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Lynn Sargi</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Human Resources Manager </strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>The Cleveland Foundation</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Cleveland, Ohio</strong></font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#397373" size="5"><em><strong>ADVO, Inc. </strong></em></font><p><font size="4"><em>"The questionnaire has been key in enabling us to <strong>objectively </strong>determine and understand what each of our secretaries is doing and where they fit into our structure." </em></font><dl> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Marjorie P. Correll, CCP</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Director, Base, Incentive & Executive Compensation</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>ADVO, Inc.</strong></font></dd> <dd><font size="4"><strong>Windsor, Connecticut</strong></font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p> </p> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="90%"> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" align="center"> </td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr size="3" color="#008080"> <div align="center"><center> <table border="2" cellpadding="2" width="90%"> <tr> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgfrmain.htm"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgprocess.htm"><strong>Overview</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgmain.htm"><strong>Main Menu</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgamodule.htm"><strong>Job Analysis</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djggmodule.htm"><strong>Job Grading</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgtraining.htm"><strong>Training</strong></a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgsoftwaresupport.htm"><strong>Support</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgsystemreq.htm"><strong>System Req.</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgpricing.htm"><strong>Pricing</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="djgfrmain.htm"><strong>DJG Home Page</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="http://www.nefried.com" target="_blank"><strong>Fried Home Page</strong></a></font></td> <td align="center" width="16%"><font size="1" face="Arial" color="#004080"><a href="http://www.nefried.com/360" target="top"><strong>360 Degree Feedback</strong></a></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <hr> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75%"> <tr> <td width="15%" rowspan="4"><font size="7" color="#408080"><strong><em>ASI</em></strong></font></td> <td width="85%"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="85%"><font color="#408080"><em><strong>  <u>Applied Synergistics<span lang="en-us"> Int'l</span>, Inc</u></strong></em></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="85%"><font color="#408080"><strong><em>    </em></strong></font> <em><strong><span lang="en-us"><font color="#408080">Scottsdale,Arizona</font></span></strong></em></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="85%"><font color="#408080"><strong><small>  Phone: (<span lang="en-us">480</span>) <span lang="en-us">607</span>-<span lang="en-us">6850</span>    <a href="mailto:info@asiorg.com">E-Mail</a></small></strong></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2" height="5"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2"><font size="1">Copyright © 1997-<span lang="en-us">2002</span>  by Applied Synergistics<span lang="en-us"> International</span>, Inc.</font></td> </tr> </table>  </body>