Hay Grade
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Hay grade is a method for qualitative evaluation for matching jobs with employees. It was developed by the Hay Group, a part of Hay Acquisition Company in the UK.
The hay grade can be used as a business evaluation tool to match up employees to jobs based on their know-how, problem solving, and accountability traits. It can assist the managers and executives of a company to assess and delegate tasks immediately after a corporate merger or take over. It can also be used by corporate boards to restructure a company's operation and employment. As logic and reason is often absent in a corporation after a traumatizing even such as a hostile takeover, the hay grading system can assist managers by simplifying the evaluation of employees who might as well be strangers to them.
The hay grading system outline traits that managers should observe in their employees and the tasks they assign. An alphabetic score is kept (like in American schools), and eventually the employee is matched to a task that he or she is most suited for, or inversely, a task is given to the employee that seems most likely to achieve the best results.
