Clones, Diversity, Innovation, and Personality
People sometimes ask whether using personality assessment for selection will create an organisation full of clones, decrease diversity, and narrow the range of innovative thought available to solve company problems. Their concern is that if they hire people with similar personality characteristics, they will create a culture of groupthink. Some assessment providers have fostered this view by […]
8 Common Personality Types
When discussing personality, it’s common to hear people refer to themselves or others as “Type A” or “Type B.” Or, for those who have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, acronyms like ISTJ or ENTP or INFP are so commonplace they frequently show up in online dating profiles. At Hogan, we’ve historically steered away from labelling people […]
Q&A: Natural Language Processing
The amount of text data we send out in the world is staggering. On average, there are 500 million tweets sent per day, 23 billion text messages, and 306.4 billion emails. Everything we say, every email we send, and every word on our resumes can be used to understand the world around us, and it […]
Evolutionary Model, Modern Results: Introducing the New Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory (HBRI)
Our hominid ancestors constantly had to solve problems related to survival. They had to find food, water, shelter, and protection from predators. They also had to keep peace within the group and defend themselves and their groups against attacks by competing groups. If they did not solve these problems sufficiently, they died—whereas those who successfully […]
Is COVID-19 Changing How People Score on Personality Assessments?
COVID-19 continues to upend our daily lives. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people die daily, millions of jobs are lost weekly, and people continue to adjust to a new world. So much has changed within the past few months. It is fair to ask if people are changing too. We examined this question empirically using […]
Using Cognitive and Personality Assessments Together Improves Employee Selection
One of the primary tasks of leadership is to effectively and efficiently allocate an organisation’s resources. In business, this requires leaders to make critical decisions that ultimately determine the success or failure of the organisation. However, making good business decisions alone is not enough to guarantee success. Effective leaders must also have the interpersonal skills […]
Leadership and Performance
Author: Peter Berry, Managing Director, PBC Dr Robert Hogan’s “Managerial Competencies and Organisational Levels” is another lively blog from the world’s greatest business psychologist. Dr Hogan says, “I have always thought that leadership is the same at any level, but many people believe that the roles of managers, and the competencies needed to perform in […]
How Personality Can Help Protect Public Health (And Your Business)
Last weekend, I did something I never thought I’d do. I donned personal protective equipment to run a basic errand. I put on gloves and a mask, and in spite of the warm spring weather, I even wore long sleeves to cover as much of my skin as possible. It felt like I was walking […]
The State of Remote Work
Working from home is a not a new experience for many employees. In the United States, 50% to 70% of jobs can be done from home, but the number of remote workers is actually much lower. This trend is mirrored around the globe. That is, the actual number of remote workers trails the number of […]
Leadership Matters
The quality of people’s lives depends on their careers. The quality of people’s careers depends on the organisations in which their careers are embedded. The success of these organisations depends on their leadership. The effectiveness of the leadership depends on the characteristics of the people in leadership roles. Ultimately then, personality drives leadership, leadership drives […]
