Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory

The Inside of Personality

The Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory (MVPI) describes personality from the inside – the core goals, values, drivers, and interests that determine what we desire and strive to attain. By assessing values, you can understand what motivates candidates to succeed, and in what type of position, job, and environment they will be the most productive.

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15- to 20-minute completion time
Available in more than 40 languages
Evaluates the fit between values culture
Predicts success and job satisfaction
More than one million participants assessed
Validated for use in more than 400 research studies
No invasive or intrusive items
No adverse impact
Online administration

The MVPI consists of 10 primary scales, which are further divided into five subscales or item themes. The MVPI item themes provide additional interpretive power by categorizing individuals’ responses to the questions that compose each MVPI scale.

Scale Name	Low Scorers	High Scorers
Recognition	Prefer to share credit Avoid calling attention to themselves	Value public acknowledgment Prefer high-visibility projects
Power	Prefer to let other people lead Avoid confrontation and competition	Value leadership positions Prefer opportunities to get ahead
Hedonism	Value business-like and professional settings Prefer serious and formal work environments	Value colorful and entertaining environments Prefer fun and open-minded settings
Altruistic	Place more value on their own work Prefer productivity over morale	Value helping other people Prefer customer-focused environments
Affiliation	Prefer working alone or in isolation Value independence	Prefer working with others or on teams Value social interaction
Tradition	Prefer flexibility and autonomy Value challenging established procedures	Prefer the status quo Avoid people that do not share beliefs
Security	Value risk taking and experimentation Prefer adventurous settings	Prefer consistency and predictability Avoid taking unnecessary risks
Commerce	Value relationships over profitability Less concerned about financial issues	Prefer environments that focus on bottom line Value activities related to financial matters
Aesthetics	Value practicality over appearance Prefer routines and repetition	Value innovation and creativity Prefer individual style and appearance
Science	Prefer people over technology Value intuition and experience	Value analysis and problem solving Prefer working with data and objective facts

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Leader Focus

Helps new leaders and first-time managers understand how their personality characteristics may influence their leadership effectiveness.

Leadership is complex and multi-dimensional. Regardless of your current or aspirational role, you are constantly making leadership impressions on those around you. For first-time leaders or managers, understanding how their personality characteristics define their leadership style can be difficult and hinder their ability to lead. Hogan’s Leader Focus Report aims to simplify and provide insight into six leadership dimensions that influence leadership style and effectiveness.

Summary

Snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.

Hogan Summary is a self-guided interpretation of individual strengths, values, and challenges. The Summary Report is a snapshot of interpersonal performance, organizational fit, and a primer for performance improvement and shifts in behavior.

High Potential

Intended to help the emergent leader become more effective and the effective leader be more emergent, resulting in maximized leadership potential.

Hogan High Potential Talent Solution is development focused to equip an organization’s high-potential talent population to become the next leaders. Potential for what? Potential to build and lead teams that can consistently outperform the competition. Some people who appear to have leadership potential are often not effective leaders; conversely, many effective employees are overlooked for promotion because they do not self-promote enough to get noticed. The Hogan High Potential Model measures the three dimensions of leadership potential, highlighting individual strengths and ranked areas of actionable development. The intent is to prioritize areas where focus and attention should be targeted, resulting in maximized leadership potential.

Flash

Designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.

Hogan Flash graphically displays Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory scale scores and provides raw data for HPI, HDS, and MVPI subscales. No interpretation information is provided. The report is designed for use by a coach or user with expertise to interpret based on numbers alone.

Leadership Forecast Series

Provides leaders with an understanding of their strengths, challenges, and underlying motivators. Requires feedback from a certified coach/user.

The Hogan Leadership Forecast Series includes four development-focused reports. Based on Hogan’s trademark assessments, the Hogan Personality Inventory, Hogan Development Survey, and Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory, each report offers information regarding the characteristics, competencies, and values that underlie how a leader approaches work, leadership, and interaction with others in the workplace.

The Engaging Leader

Provides a picture of your underlying motives and values and how these influence your behavior at work, which affects how engaged your team feels.

Employee engagement is the extent to which employees think, feel, and act in ways that represent high levels of commitment to their organization. Engaged employees are motivated to contribute 100% of their knowledge, skills, and abilities to help their organization succeed.

Hogan Engaging Leader provides a picture of your underlying motives and values and how these influence your behavior at work. You’ll see what your team thinks about working for you – and how engaged they feel as a result. Engagement drives performance, so the more engaged and effective your team feels, the better their performance will be. Interpretive guidelines are shown alongside each section.

Teams

Designed to help team members gain an understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture.

Hogan Team is designed to help team members gain a holistic, personality-based understanding of team strengths, weaknesses, and culture, and to understand how members’ personalities and motivators may support or hinder team effectiveness in light of the team’s character, business, context, and goals. The report draws on personality assessment to help teams identify and understand three internal dynamics: strengths and weaknesses, potential fracture lines, and culture and shared values.

Insight Series

Explores a mid-level manager’s strengths, performance risks, and values, and can be used as a feedback tool for selection or development.

The Insight Series provides organizations with scientifically validated information about an individual’s strengths, performance risks, and core values. Used as a feedback tool for selection or development, the easy-to-understand report series gives emerging and mid-level managers the self-awareness needed to perform effectively.

Basis

Custom solution that describes job fit and provides a hiring recommendation, interview guide, and method for making a hiring decision.

Hogan Basis describes a candidate’s fit to the job and organization. The report provides a hiring recommendation, behavioral interview guide, and systematic method for making a hiring decision using a combination of the assessment and interview results.

Sales Basis

Out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.

Sales Basis is an out-of-the-box solution for hiring high revenue-generating sales professionals, used for a broad range of sales jobs across industries.

Leader Basis

Out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles.

Leader Basis is an out-of-the-box solution that identifies a candidate’s strengths and potential areas of weakness for leadership roles and provides a hiring recommendation.

Values

Explores the core values and goals that drive a leader’s behavior, aspirations, and expectations about life.

Hogan Values explores the core values and goals that ultimately drive a leader’s behavior, aspirations, and expectations about life. What people value determines how they will lead; this determines the kind of environment a leader will create and the sort of organizational culture in which the person will do the best work.

Compass

Identifies core values, compares them with various occupations and cultures, and describes the type of environment in which they will be comfortable working.

Hogan Compass identifies employees’ core values, compares them with various occupations and cultures, and describes the type of environment in which they will be comfortable working and living. The report is designed to provide guidance the career planning process.

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