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Example of ordinal measurements
You work for a small publishing company with ten employees. Due to the size of your organization, you do not use job evaluation to set pay. Rather, you rank the ten jobs in terms of importance, or value to the company, as follows:
| #1 | Publisher |
| #2 | Editor |
| #3 | Sales Manager |
| #4 | Production Manager |
| #5 | Marketing and Advertising Manager |
| #6 | Art Director |
| #7 | Editorial Writer |
| #8 | Accountant |
| #9 | Shipping Coordinator |
| #10 | Copy Editor |
This ordinal ranking displays the relative importance of the ten jobs but does not measure how much more valuable one job is than another. For example, you cannot say that the Publisher is three times more important than the Sales Manager.
Memory Jogger
You have just finished doing a performance review for three employees. Their scores are as follows:
| Employee | Score |
|
A B C |
47 30 45 |
How would you rank the performance of these employees ordinally?
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