Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory - TECHNICAL FACTS

The Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory contains 24 items that range over the three well-known content areas of verbal, quantitative, and graphic material. Within each of these content domains, half the questions concern tactical reasoning ability and half concern strategic reasoning ability. Scores reflect individual differences in tactical and strategic reasoning. The items have been carefully developed to minimize reading requirements and adverse impact. Completion time is 25 to 30 minutes in managerial samples.

The HBRI is based on evolutionary psychology. Within this context, intelligence is a function of meta-representational competence, the ability to reflect on one's past actions, determine where the problems have occurred, and then devise methods to avoid repeating those problems in the future. Individual differences in this cognitive capacity enhance performance in every significant domain of human action. Detecting problems and performance anomalies is called strategic thinking or problem identification. Solving problems is called tactical thinking or problem solving.

The HBRI is reliable, with internal consistency reliabilities in the .82 region. Tactical and strategic reasoning correlate at .58. The HBRI predicts supervisors' ratings for the ability to get business results, and for potential for advancement.