Willamette University has engaged Sibson Consulting (a nationally recognized Human Resources consulting firm) to assist in efforts to designing a fair and equitable classification and compensation program for exempt and non-exempt staff.
As part of this process, we request your assistance in completing this online Position Description Questionnaire (PDQ) to ensure we have the most up-to-date, clear, and accurate information for every staff position. The people who best know the work involved in any given job are those that are closest to the job—you and your supervisor. It is also true that jobs often experience “drift” in what work is actually being performed vs. what is intended. This process may also help identify where the intent of a job has changed over time.
Your response to this questionnaire (and subsequent Manager’s review) will help create a better understanding of positions across the campus, which in turn, will enable us to:
- Create specific position descriptions that define more accurately the content and minimum requirements for each position.
- Update the University’s generic job description specifications from which job families will be developed.
- Develop a job titling protocol so that titles are used consistently and appropriately across the University community.
- Compare salaries of positions at Willamette to those at comparable institutions and organizations in order to obtain an accurate assessment of Willamette’s market pay competitiveness across the staff population.
- Accurately assign positions to grades so that positions with similar impact, scope, and required knowledge are in the same salary grades, unless market dictates otherwise.
