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gradar vs TMA: A definitive comparison

gradar and TMA provide complementary solutions that support fair, transparent and effective people decisions - but each has a distinct focus and set of strengths.

What does each system do?

gradar is a global job evaluation and grading platform that helps organisations align job roles with organisational structures. It uses a structured framework to assess job levels - bringing consistency and objectivity to role and reward decisions.

TMA specialises in talent insights and behavioural analysis, helping understand people’s natural drives, talents and competencies. Through scientifically-validated assessments – TMA supports better selection, development and role matching.

Both platforms help organisations build fairness and transparency – with gradar excelling in job architecture and role alignment and TMA adding value through insight into human potential, motivation and performance.

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Key strengths

Provides a consistent, transparent method for defining work of equal value

Aligns job grades with local market conditions and regulatory requirements

Helps organizations establish clear pay bands and progression paths

Facilitates data-driven compensation decisions for pay transparency

Identifies your organisation’s gender pay gap based on employee data

Identifies people’s natural talents, drives and behavioural preferences

Predicts potential and role fit using scientifically-validated assessments

Supports objective selection, development and succession planning

Provides insight into strengths, development opportunities and motivation

Aligns talent decisions with organisational culture and ambition

Unlock human potential through talents and drives

Dive deeper into TMA’s framework to reveal people’s natural talents, drives and behaviour to support fair, objective and effective talent decisions.
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Use Cases for talent management

Job grading

gradar’s job grading system helps organisations define and structure roles based on responsibilities, complexity, skill levels and qualifications - creating a consistent framework for understanding work across the organisation.

Example

Your organisation can use gradar to establish clear role definitions and job levels - providing a solid foundation for talent decisions such as hiring, development, mobility and succession planning.

Role distribution

gradar provides demographic and structural insights across job grades - showing how roles and levels are distributed across the organisation and highlighting patterns that may require attention.

Example

Your organisation can identify concentrations of talent, progression bottlenecks or imbalances across grades - enabling more informed workforce planning and targeted development initiatives.

Selection and role matching

TMA’s Talent Analysis provides insight into a person’s natural drives and talents, enabling organisations to assess how well someone is intrinsically suited to a role and its required behaviours.

Example

Your organisation can use TMA insights alongside graded job profiles from gradar to ensure candidates are not only qualified, but also naturally motivated to succeed in the role.

Development and performance management

TMA’s competency and 360° feedback tools measure observable behaviour in practice, helping understand how performance aligns with both role requirements and individual potential.

Example

With TMA, managers can identify whether performance challenges are skill-related, motivation-related or context-related - enabling targeted development and more sustainable performance outcomes.

Learn more about TMA

TMA empowers organisations to unlock human potential by focusing on talents, drives and strengths. Through its scientifically-validated assessments and development tools, TMA helps organisations make fair, objective and effective people decisions - and we’re delighted to be working closely with them.

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Pay transparency through competency profiles

gradar brings clarity to how competencies are defined and applied - supporting fair, objective talent decisions.

Job evaluation

Compensation

Pay transparency