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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. Titles are not the problem. The problem is that titles were asked to carry weight they were never designed for: to descr

Aug 25 · 9 min