We are looking to segment our employees into career streams: Executive, Manager, Individual Contributor, and Support. Each has associated skills/proficiencies and job levels associated with them. Do you have anything like this at your company, and if so, what are they? We are currently debating the need for Individual Contributor vs. Support.
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What you are suggesting seems more like segregation by seniority, not by job families. For functional competencies, it will make more sense to first group jobs by their nature into clusters as they share similar scope of responsibilities e.g. project management job family. Then you can define the competencies by level of seniority that matches their scope of responsibilities and level of accountability. If course if you don't need to develop functional competencies, then you may consider using your core competencies and then develop specific behavior anchors that match with the levels you have in mind. These would need to be tested to ensure their validity and reliability.
We have 4 career streams; Executive, Manager, Professional, and Support.
Thank you! How do employees feel about being called support? Are those typically your front-line non-exempt employees?
Yes, Support stream employees are typically front-line non-exempt employees. We allowed employees to keep their business titles, and the job categorization is behind the scenes, so we have not gotten any feedback from employees on this.
We use the job catalogue and subsequent grading instead. The catalogue will show the differences between admin roles versus C-level and is benchmarked so more objective than trying to do it internally.