Reading Time: < 1 minute In an article on Elite Daily, Hogan CEO Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains how the significance of music — and its relation to personality — revolves around three important factors:
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A Safer Personality
Reading Time: < 1 minuteConventional wisdom says on-the-job training that focuses on education, equipment, and protocol leads to safer employees. While this line of thought has certainly lowered the number of workplace injuries, it tends to ignore research that shows that a worker’s personality and behavior play key roles in creating a culture of safety.
FAQ Blog Series: The Motives, Values, Preferences Inventory
Reading Time: 2 minutes In this final installment in our FAQ series, the Hogan Research Department addresses questions on the Motives, Values, Preferences inventory (MVPI). Add your questions to the comments below.
Hogan Partners with Witt/Kieffer and Providence Health & Services on Physician Executive Performance Study
Reading Time: 2 minutes What are the characteristics that define outstanding physician leaders? A yearlong collaborative study of more than 100 physician executives conducted by Hogan Assessments, executive search firm Witt/Kieffer and Providence Health & Services found that certain qualities can actually predict strong performance.
FAQ Blog Series: The Hogan Development Survey
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis installment of our FAQ blog series focuses on the Hogan Development Survey where our Hogan Research Department answers questions on derailing tendencies. Add your questions to the comments.
Unlocking the Door to Talent
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCompetencies are the key to talent. Whether you are looking for a new job or a promotion, employers will try to evaluate how well your talents fit with a given role. But what competencies are employers looking for today, and how do they measure them? In our complimentary ebook, Unlocking the Door to Talent, we… Read more »
What You Think Makes A Good Leader Probably Doesn’t
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat does it take to be a good leader? One reason that’s such a perennial question is because it’s so hard to answer. Many of our opinions about leadership are based on subjective experiences rather than the full breadth of psychological research in the field. We may think we know what qualities we value in… Read more »
FAQ Blog Series: The Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI)
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this third installment of our frequently asked questions blog series, the Hogan Research Department addresses the Hogan Personality Inventory scales and HICs, which are also known as subscales. Add your questions to the comments below.
How different are your online and offline personalities?
Reading Time: 3 minutesOur habits define us. But how true is this for our digital habits? Are we the same online as offline? In the early days of the internet, it was probably safe to assume that our online behaviours did not reveal much about our real-world personas. This notion was popularised by the “on the internet, nobody… Read more »
Why Ditching Appraisals is a Stupid Idea
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe HR fad for scrapping performance reviews won’t benefit either employers or employees. The past few months have seen a great deal of discussion about the uselessness of performance evaluations.The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, a cover feature in Harvard Business Review, and a global PR campaign by Accenture – the most… Read more »