How Organisations Can Improve Gender Equity in Leadership
March brings one of my favourite international holidays, International Women’s Day. March 8 is dedicated to celebrating the incredible accomplishments of women. While International Women’s Day reminds us of all the amazing things women can achieve, we should still remember we have a long way to go to achieve equality in the workforce. To date, […]
Talent Pro, Beware: 11 Employee Behaviours to Watch Out For
Job-related stress is a major problem faced by people worldwide. As many as 60% of workers in the major global economies reported experiencing stress at work, and in the United States, a staggering 80% of workers say they are stressed because of their jobs. Aside from the health implications that job-related stress can have for […]
Quiet Quitting and Personality: Who Becomes a Quiet Quitter?
By now, you likely have heard the term quiet quitting. Since the idea went viral on TikTok, quiet quitting has been debated, clarified, celebrated, and reviled. It seems to evoke strong, emotional reactions from individual contributors to corporate leaders and everyone in between. Because the original TikTok video about quiet quitting was posted by a Gen […]
Using Personality Assessments to Save Lives
Personality plays a role in developing and maintaining a safe workplace environment. It can predict safe behaviour and even save lives. But how? Recently on The Science of Personality, cohosts Ryne Sherman, PhD, and Blake Loepp spoke with Zsolt Feher, managing director of Hogan’s International Distributors Network, about personality and safety. Every time there is a […]
The Importance of Values
Values affect our personal and professional lives in ways we aren’t often aware. They influence our work performance and organisational effectiveness. The importance of values can’t be overstated—values explain quite a lot about the nature of human nature. Recently on The Science of Personality, Robert Hogan, PhD, founder and president of Hogan Assessments, spoke about the […]
Four Meta-competencies of Leadership
Effective leaders exhibit four meta-competencies of leadership. These are (1) being emotionally intelligent, (2) being achievement focused, (3) being strategic, and (4) being inspiring. In this article, we explore the research behind these meta-competencies and how they influence leadership effectiveness. The four meta-competencies were developed using a combination of Hogan personality assessment data and 360 […]
How Faking Impacts Personality Assessment Results
People constantly ask us how faking affects the results of personality assessment. We believe that faking doesn’t matter, and we say this for two reasons. First, the data show that people can’t or don’t fake their answers on personality questionnaires. Second, it is very hard to define faking. Let’s take these two points in order. […]
The Benefits of Cooperation at Work: Why Getting Along Matters
Humans just don’t excel at surviving in the wild alone. We have no claws, horns, fangs, shells, or spikes. What we do have is each other—and a far higher chance of survival when we practice cooperation in groups. Our instincts for cooperation at work and elsewhere stems from our group-living ancestors who passed down their […]
How to Take a Personality Test
A personality test isn’t quite like other job-related tests. There’s no such thing as passing or failing, for one. And it’s not even truly a test—it’s an assessment, which is more like a measurement. Because of that, we have a few important tips for how to take a personality test. Recently on The Science of Personality, […]
Workplace Competition: Why We Compete at Work
Workplace competition is universal. The workplaces themselves aren’t the cause of why we compete at work, though. People are the common factor in all work environments everywhere. Something fundamental exists in human nature that motivates us to compete. Competition in the workplace can produce outcomes that are positive, negative, or a complex mixture. The desire […]
