Job analysis and development of job descriptions at the Reserve Bank of India

The project is an attempt to prepare the Job Descriptions of the three grades of employees (Grade C, Grade D, Grade E) for the two departments namely Financial Markets Department and Internal Debt Management Department of RBI, Fort Mumbai. The project involves in understanding the roles and responsibilities of an individual at a particular job and then documenting them in the proper Job description format after proper analysis of the various responses. It involves preparing a questionnaire so that all information related to a particular job can be captured. Certain other details like the minimum years of work experience, qualification required, technical skills required etc are also captured in this course of work. Some focus has been given to find out the required competencies that are helpful to be successful in that particular job position. This has been done with the Behavioral Event Interview (BEI) method by introducing a particular question regarding any critical incident in the questionnaire. Moreover, the respondents themselves are asked to identify and select the competencies which they think are useful for them. Finally the responses of the various employees of the same grade are analyzed and then collated to form the final job description for that grade. This has been prepared based on the employee responses but it may even get changed from time to time with the requirement of the organization.