Weighing

Definition

Term for the evaluation of the significance (importance) of items of interest among each other, e.g. in order to identify focal points or to form rankings. Used, for example, in job evaluation, utility analyses or pairwise comparisons, where the weighting factors are set arbitrarily. In work evaluation, the following are possible:

• Separate weighting - weighting of the requirement types in relation to each other following the determination of the rank number or level number by multiplication with the agreed (defined) weighting factors to obtain partial work values per requirement type. The degree of difficulty (total requirement value) of a work task is the sum of the partial work values.
• Bound weighting - The weighting of the requirement types to each other is fixed and already takes into account a different number of evaluation levels or rankings. The degree of difficulty (total work value) of a work task results from the sum of the individual requirement point values.