Got Job Fit?

How can we avoid becoming a casualty of the bad-fit syndrome? This goes beyond the title, pay and benefits, job description and commuting time. We need something to give us an insight...

The Role Behavioral Analysis (RBA) uses the DiSC system to collect and process perceptions of the behavioral expectations of how a job, position, or role needs to be fulfilled to achieve maximum effectiveness. These perceptions are based on the role, not the person in the role. The RBA focuses on how the role needs to be fulfilled regardless of who is in the role.

Job descriptions tend to focus on the what of a job: defining tasks, duties, or responsibilities. The Role Behavior Analysis is used to clarify and define how the job needs to be done. Individuals may be able to define clearly what should be done in a position, yet be unclear on how those activities or tasks should be done.

One company may want to be seen as the “hard-charging, results-oriented people” while another may want to be seen as “the friendly, helpful partner.” The job description, or what, may be very similar in both companies, yet the how is quite different.

The most effective way to clarify behavioral expectations of a specific role is to have several people familiar with the role participate in a consensus discussion of the role behavioral expectations.

The RBA could be used to display the degree of fit between the person's style and the behavioral expectations of the role. 

The comparison of the RBA and DiSC style of a person could result in three possible person-to-role performance match:

* Good Fit

* Stretch

* Redirect

Good fit
These are the behaviors where the role requires about the same amount of the behavior as the person has naturally occurring

Stretches
These are the behaviors that the role requires more of than is naturally occurring in the person’s behavioral style.

Redirect
These are the behaviors that the person has more of naturally occurring than the role requires, which may mean he or she may overuse these behaviors and may need to redirect his or her naturally occurring behaviors to those required by the role.