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Annotated bibliography

“Learning Disability Pay Bands Assessed”

Nurses who specifically deal with learning disabilities could be on the verge of receiving higher pay bands than their peers who do adult or mental health nursing. The article written by Colin Parish in the Nursing Standard dives deeper into “Agenda for Change job profile for learning disabilities nurses. The agenda is a motion that looks into nurses who deal with learning disabilities being paid more than their peers whom only deal with adult or mental health issues nursing. In their job profile RCN’s head of Employment, Josie Irwin, states “We found that they match well against the specialist and highly specialist job profiles.” However, the NHS trade unions are reluctant to enter another long-term pay deal. My source is helpful because it shows the difficulty of increasing a group’s pay bands even though they are deserving. It also shows what it usually takes to increase a pay band the loops you have to jump through in order to do so. I can use this source as an example of a pay band trying to be increased.

Parish, C. (2005, June 08). Learning Disability Pay Bands Assesed. Nursing Standard, 8-8.

“Top NHS earners may have been manipulating their pay bands”

NHS managers earning very high salaries may have manipulated the job evaluation process to gain high salaries. NHS was asked by unions to re-evaluate the salaries of many top execs. RCN’s Head of employment relations, Josie Irwin acknowledges that “a group of staff in the NHS has overplayed certain factors to get higher grades.”  The article written by Richard Staines for the Nursing Standard Magazine looks into the accusations that some nursing managers inflated some aspects of their job evaluation to inflate their salary bands. I think this article is going to be helpful because it shows an aspect of how competitive jobs are with salary bands and that these men and women would risk their jobs in order to move up salary bands. My research over pay bands correlates with this article because it expands the idea of pay bands and shows another example of how companies manage their pay scales.

Staines, R. (2005, June 08). Learning Disability Pay Bands Assesed. Nursing Standard, 8-8.

“GP Practice: Using Job Evaluation to assess staff pay bands”

In this article it is stated that job evaluations “evaluates the job, not the person doing it, and is based on a series of logical, consistent and systematic judgements.” This article is about how trained representatives match jobs to their respective pay bands. When determining what pay scale a job falls under, 200 national profiles of commonly occurring jobs are identified as benchmarks, jobs are then matched against these benchmarks to see if they meet the same requirements. It also shows how pay bands increase in certain areas and what factors into those increases.  I think this article would be beneficial to me because it covers many aspects of pay bands from how jobs are match to their respective salary bands to how fast the pay bands increase. In my wiki page this article will help tremendously because it would give me a better understanding of pay bands.

GP Practice: Using Job Evaluation to assess staff pay bands. (2016, September 23). Health Reference Center Academic.

“New Pay bands expand intel employees’ earning potential.

Sixteen Government agencies changed their pay bands, this will allow their employees to earn more money. The change comes from the institution of a new pay for performance system. The highest paid employees can earn $2,400 to $6,360 more than they did the previous year. “We want to do something that rewards performance.: says the Director of National Intelligence Michael McConell.  They say that the pay increases have been normal for a decade now, and the results are more than pleasing. The new pay bands are solely based on performance, the better you perform, the better you are paid, but underperforming employees will not receive a salary decrease. I think this article will help my wiki page because it cites examples of pay bands being increased. It also shows what an employee has to do, in order to expand their pay band. This article allows me to give a better understanding of pay bands to the general public. This article explains even government jobs use pay bands

Losen, S. (2008, May 19). New Pay Bands Expand Intel Employees' earning potential. Federal TImes, 10-10.

“Tyrie calls for FSA to reveal bank pay bands”

The Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee wants the Financial Services Authority to reveal the salary of bankers in Britain. This move is “designed to break the deadlock on City remuneration.” Andrew Tyrie is the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee, demands that Sir David Walker’s recommendation should be implemented. Sir David Walker’s recommends that all bank employees receiving over 1 million euro should have their pay bands revealed to the public. The banks are against this notion because they are concerned about “competiveness”. Andrew Tyrie’s proposals are for “bands to include the FTSE100 banks together” he also notes in his plans that his plans should answer any concerns about competitiveness that the banks may have. This article will help my research, because it expanded my knowledge of pay bands, I did not know that pay bands can be released to the public (atleast in Britain they can).

Armistead, L. (2011, February 01). Tyrie calls for FSA to reveal bank pay bands. Daily Telgraph (London), 3-3.1.

Article evaluation

1. There are no facts stated on the wiki page, so there are no references.
2. Yes, everything in the article was relevant to the article topic. The article stayed on course talking about pay bands, giving a clear definition and multiple examples.
3. Yes, the article is neutral there are no clear statements showing any bias.
4. The information comes from an unknown source
5. There are no view points presented, the article only discusses the definition of pay bands, where pay bands occur, and examples of various employers using the pay band method.
6. There are no citations present in the article.
7. I think the article should give more examples of companies using pay bands, where pay bands originated from, and are there negative views on pay bands.