New Guide to Building Job Families

In today’s dynamic business environment, organisations face the challenge of managing ever-evolving job roles. The skills required for these roles are also constantly changing

By implementing job families, organisations can streamline talent development, simplify reward structures, enhance career progression, and foster a more strategic approach to workforce planning.

A job family framework not only simplifies the creation of clear career pathways for employees but also helps to identify skill gaps and facilitate learning programmes.

What Does a Job Families Framework Enable an Organisation to Do?

1. Simplify Pay Structures and Job Evaluation Processes

Job families provide an organisation with a simplified framework for managing pay and reward. The number of distinct reward structures will be reduced, making it easier to manage pay processes and communicate pay information. If a job evaluation process is in place, a job family structure makes it possible to evaluate the high-level roles within each family rather than evaluating each job in each location/team.

2. Enable Pay Transparency

A job family structure can often facilitate better communication and transparency around pay. When you have a job family structure with standardised role profiles and job titles, you’re able to establish your grading and pay bandings at this higher level.

3. Simplify Pay Equity Analysis

If roles are aligned to a job family structure, and each profile has a grade or level and a pay banding, it makes it much easier to look across your organisation and spot any pay equity issues.

4. Provide A Framework For Skills

Many organisations are looking at moving to a skills-based approach. To do this you need to have a clear understanding of the work being done on the ground and the skills needed to deliver this work.

5. Design Career Paths

Having a job family framework in place makes mapping out potential career paths for employees easier. Mapping job titles and skills into a job family framework makes it much easier to look laterally and develop cross-functional career paths.

6. Develop Learning Content

Job families based on common skills and/or capabilities help facilitate the development of learning content. A key advantage is that Capability Academies can be aligned to job families, provided these have been categorised based on common skills and capabilities.

7. More Accurate Reporting

A job family framework helps simplify many compliance and reporting requirements, whether that is for equal pay, gender pay gap analysis or other compliance and legislative reporting requirements.

8. Workforce Agility

Aligning your jobs into job families is an enabler of better workforce planning and increased workforce agility. It provides you with the framework to consolidate all your skills and work in a structured format, that then allows you to identify commonalities of skills and work and increase your workforce agility.

To learn more, download our latest guide: Five Steps to Building Job Families