Six Safety-Conscious Personality Traits for the Post-COVID Workplace
With many workers returning to their offices, preventing the spread of COVID-19 and protecting employee health is a top priority for business leaders. While initiatives like enhanced sanitation and social distancing policies are a must, the biggest threat to workplace health and safety is often overlooked by managers—recruiting safety-conscious staff. The Hogan Safety Report, which scores […]
How Personality Assessments Improve Safety at Work
Gaining the best and most suitable employees for your company is the key to success. Nowadays, companies are trying to hire the best of the best and are putting a lot of effort into new and exciting forms of recruiting. While a strong recruiting strategy provides only one major advantage for most companies, it is […]
Leadership Through Organisational Crisis
Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer for Hogan, gave a presentation on leadership through organisational crisis at the Peter Berry Consultancy Thought Leadership Forum in Sydney. In 2018, Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 experienced engine failure. Debris from the engine struck the wing and a window, causing rapid decompression in the cabin and one passenger fatality. […]
Personality of Elite Athletes
PBC has worked with the elite athletes at both state and national level across Australia, developing their players, teams and umpires. We also published a research paper to examine the following points of interest: • Do elite sports players differ from non-elite sports players in terms of their personality? • How do any observable difference […]
CEO Behaviour
Are luxury possessions and speeding tickets indicative of CEOs who will cultivate scandal and commit fraud? They can be. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Aiyesha Dey, PhD, associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, about how CEO personality influences CEO behaviour. By researching the […]
5 Engaging Virtual Team-Building Activities
“Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.” This quote, attributed to Helen Keller, is as true today as it was in the 1920s. A cohesive team is one of the most effective ways to accomplish work and achieve goals. Virtual team-building activities for bringing remote teams and hybrid teams together […]
Personality and Role Replacement
When a role becomes vacant, we usually strive to replace the person, not the personality. But is that really the most equitable and efficient way to tackle role replacement, particularly employee replacement? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, spoke with Bradley Brummel, PhD, professor and director of industrial-organisational psychology, […]
The Superstar Effect
Superstar workers aren’t always as good as they seem. When other high performers must compete with superstars, they can become demotivated. This is known as the superstar effect, and it can have a significant impact on teams and organisations. Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, explored […]
Attachment Styles in the Workplace
What do crying babies, airport goodbyes, and leadership development have in common? Plenty, according to attachment theory. Recently on Hogan Assessment’s podcast, The Science of Personality, co-hosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, chief science officer, and Blake Loepp, PR manager, talked with Peter Harms, PhD, professor of management at the University of Alabama, about attachment styles in the workplace. Often overlooked […]
Who Becomes a Private Equity Leader?
We examined the personalities of more than 900 private equity executives to see how they compare to other employees around the world. What follows is a summary of what we found. For many of us, the world of finance is a mystery, filled with names like Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, and Lloyd Blankfein, who are […]
