13 Chapter 2: Critical Literature Review 2.1 ... - Dissertation

58These new positions were ones that belonged to the emergency unit, and the intensive care unit(Kahya, 2006).On a more specific level, the research concluded that it would be unwise to generalizewage rates for nurses since every specific nursing position in a hospital entailed a unique set ofcharacteristics. These characteristics spanned across not only the nurses responsibilities but alsoacross financial and physical resources, as well as information resources (Kahya, 2006). Theresearch attempted to bring to light that while the NHS Job Evaluation System was a systemunlike no other in terms of its effectiveness and efficiency, there is still significant room forimprovement with regard to the number of jobs developed and implemented in order to carry outthe large number of clinical supervisor nursing jobs.2.15.5 An Analysis of Job Evaluation Committee and Job Holder Gendered Effects on JobEvaluationAn Analysis of Job Evaluation Committee and Job Holder Gendered Effects on JobEvaluation was the article selected for discussion, analysis, and evaluation. The research hadbeen conducted by Chad T. Lewis and Cynthia Kay Stevens in 1990 and was from Volume 19 ofPublic Personnel Management. The research was based heavily on primary data analysis todevelop a case and made use of previous research studies in the form of secondary data tostrengthen the claims and findings of the research.The rationale of the research was based on the fact that remuneration trends in regionssuch as Great Britain and Australia had taken on a rather uniform outlook, and the researchappeared to be motivated by the presence of the trend in the public sector. The authors initiatedthe research by presenting fundamental definitions of the key constituents of the research. Theprimary key constituent in this regard was that of the very definition of job evaluation