The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) identifies personality-based performance risks and derailers of interpersonal behavior. These behaviors are most often seen during times of stress and may impede work relationships, hinder productivity, or limit overall career potential. These derailers—deeply ingrained in personality—affect an individual’s leadership style and actions. If these behavior patterns are recognized, however, they can be compensated by development and coaching.
Features & Benefits » Back
The Hogan Development Survey provides valuable feedback for strategic self-awareness, which is the key to avoiding the negative consequences associated with these tendencies. The HDS is the only business-related inventory that measures these dysfunctional behavioral patterns.
- Designed to predict barriers to a successful career
- Identifies problematic aspects of behavior that are hard to detect during an interview
- Concerns characteristics not covered by the Five-Factor Model
- Identifies career derailing tendencies so they can be addressed and coached
- Developed exclusively on working adults
- Normed on over 10,000 working managers
- No invasive or intrusive items
- Is not a medical exam – not clinically oriented
- No adverse impact
- Online administration by protected access
- User-friendly reports available for employee selection or development
- Test items and reports available in multiple languages
HDS Primary Scales & Interpretations » Back
The HDS scales are interpreted in terms of risk—higher scores indicate greater potential for problems on the job. If these behaviors are recognized, however, a person can be coached to compensate for them.
| Excitable: |
moody, easily annoyed, hard to please, and emotionally volatile |
| Skeptical: |
distrustful, cynical, sensitive to criticism, and focused on the negative |
| Cautious: |
unassertive, resistant to change, risk-averse, and slow to make decisions |
| Reserved: |
aloof, indifferent to the feelings of others, and uncommunicative |
| Leisurely: |
overtly cooperative, but privately irritable, stubborn, and uncooperative |
| Bold: |
overly self-confident, arrogant, with inflated feelings of self-worth |
| Mischievous: |
charming, risk-taking, limit-testing and excitement-seeking |
| Colorful: |
dramatic, attention-seeking, interruptive, and poor listening skills |
| Imaginative: |
creative, but thinking and acting in unusual or eccentric ways |
| Diligent: |
meticulous, precise, hard to please, and tends to micromanage |
| Dutiful: |
eager to please and reluctant to act independently or against popular opinion |
Technical Facts » Back
- 168 true and false items that have been carefully reviewed for invasive or intrusive content
- 15 - 20 minute completion time
- Simple and comprehensible items based on a 5th-grade reading level
- Research indicates no adverse impact by age, race, ethnicity or gender
- HDS scores are stable over time; test-retest reliabilities range from .58 to .87 (mean = .75)
- Normed on over 100,000 employed adults from a variety of industries
- Over 500,000 individuals have completed the HDS
- Validated in over 50 organizations across a wide range of occupational categories
- Validation research links HDS scores with ratings of managerial competencies
- Personality-based inventory designed to measure potential leadership derailers
Reports & Applications » Back
The results of the Hogan Development Survey are obtained through a variety of report formats that range in terms of scope and complexity. The reports provide detailed HDS graphs and also provide the following information:
- Identifies how the candidate is likely to act in various circumstances
- Notes strengths and shortcomings
- Makes suggestions about how to manage the individual's career
- Pinpoints characteristics and tendencies that might lead to career derailment
- Identifies tendencies that impede work relationships and hinder productivity
- Provides a graphic report of the candidate's assessment results
- Identifies factors relevant to one’s own strategic self-awareness
Ordering Information
For more information on the Hogan Development Survey or to purchase reports based on the HDS, contact us at info@hoganassessments.com or 800-756-0632.
Click here to download an HDS brochure.
