enhance programming quality and impart a better sense of the cost and resource implications of programme decisions.
1.3 In the Radio Division, organising around the individual channels will help foster creativity and build clear channel identities, while folding the specialised radio production units and studio operations into the channels they primarily serve will assign closer accountability for programme costs. Other radio production services (e.g., maintenance, transmission, and outside broadcasting) are in a separate unit serving all channels, as is news and current affairs - a high-cost operation requiring specialised skills.
1.4
Finally, the new organisation establishes a dedicated, high-level marketing unit and an upgraded central administration/finance unit to meet the commercial and management challenges of corporatisation.
JOB GRADING SYSTEM TO ENSURE
COMPARABILITY. CONSISTENCY
1.5 This new organisation includes a diversity of managerial, technical, creative, and support positions. To make it function effectively, therefore, RTHKC needs a new method of classifying jobs that will permit internal comparability and consistency across the different types of jobs in the various divisions and units; it should also be flexible and easy to administer. Thus, we propose that RTHKC adopt an eight-level job grading system, with the jobs in each of the grades reflecting a roughly comparable level of responsibility and skill (see Exhibit 2). Although our mandate was to classify only the 50-odd managerial, professional, and technical positions, the proposed grading scheme has been
extended to all RTHKC staff.
1.6
Specifically, Grades 6 through 8 are senior management positions, ranging from the TV programming unit heads and the radio channel heads up to the Executive Director of RTHKC. Grades 4 and 5 are middle-management and professional positions, encompassing the senior technical and editorial personnel as well as the various producer levels. Most rank-and-file junior professionals come under Grade 3, while Grades 1 and 2 comprise mainly general support staff.
McKinsey & Company, Inc.
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