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Archive for the ‘Human Resource Management’ Category
Friday, February 18th, 2011
PsyAsia International invites you to a complimentary webinar that will cover the questions HR Professionals should and should not ask when evaluating psychometric tests. The facilitator will show you the materials referred to in the questions that you need to ask and show you how to evaluate a test distributor’s response.
This free webinar is open to all HR and related professionals based in Asia. It is not open to competitors.
You’ll go away knowing the top-5 questions to ask when evaluating a psychometric test and how to evaluate those responses at a basic level. You’ll also find out what questions are frequently asked but really should have no bearing in test choice. There will be ample time for participant questions.
REGISTER HERE: http://www.psyasia.com/hr_seminars.php
Tags: choosing psychometric tests, hr and psychometrics, hrm psycometrics, psychometric news, psychometric test distributor, Psychometric Test Training
Posted in BPS Level A & B Certificates, Competence in Psychometric Testing, Human Resource Management, Personality Tests, Psychometric Test Training, Psychometric Test Webinars, Psychometric Tests, Psychometric Tests in HRM, Reliability of Psychometric Tests, Validity of Psychometric Tests | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
It’s not news that fatigued workers perform less well and are less safe on the job. However, according to the Monitor on Psychology (January 2011), it is more difficult than we think to adjust to shift work or lack of sleep.
This is a pertinent issue. With the demands of the modern workplace, more and more workers play hard after work and sleep less. The lack of sleep not only results in eye bags and wrinkles, but makes the body less effective at reducing toxins and more susceptible to illness and disease. This is true for all regular day workers. For night workers, the dangers are multiplied because they are forcing their body’s circadian rhythm to change. It’s possible to have the circadian rhythm gradually adjust and realign, but for many shift workers, their hours are irregular.
For example, many hotel staff will work overnight one day and then work a day shift the next. The body never has time to realign its rhythm.
Human Resources staff need to take this issue seriously when planning and training because it can lead to safety issues in addition to increased absenteeism, poor moods at work and lower overall performance. There are no permanently effective solutions to this issue, but the following research backed advice may assist:
1. Try to have staff work regular night shifts and educate them as to the importance of trying to keep their circadian rhythms in their adjusted state. They can do this by spending their day off on the same time episodes as their night shift days. This however may not be sellable to the employee who perhaps wants to spend time with friends or go out shopping.
2. For non-shift staff, ensure they understand the effects of not sleeping enough. It impacts on everybody at work due to mood, motivation and performance deficits. Try to make their work more interesting and fun so that they look forward to it each night and thus don’t feel they need to use up every minute of spare time having fun rather than sleeping.
Written and Published by PsyAsia International’s Psychometric Tests and HRM News Team
Tags: hrm, human resource management, human resources, shift work, work performance, work performance and hrm
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Thursday, February 10th, 2011
Introduction
Those without training in psychometrics can never effectively evaluate a psychometric test.
The following very briefly gives an overview of the questions HR should be asking when contacting test vendors.
This brief presentation is not intended to replace competent training in psychometrics.
What is the test’s rationale?
Is the vendor clear on the model behind the test?
What was the test designed to assess?
Who designed the test?
Technical data: Reliability
How consistently does the test measure what it purports to measure?
Are there documented studies to support for example test-retest reliability and internal consistency reliability? Look for .7 for personality scales and .8 for aptitude.
Does the vendor have a clue as to what you are talking about?
Technical data: Validity
Are there documented studies which show the test is “fit for purpose”?
Is there evidence for criterion validity if you will use the test to predict performance directly? Look for significant and meaningful correlations between test score and performance. How does this compare with competitors?
Is there evidence for construct validity if you will use the test to assess various aspects of personality or aptitude that you will compare to others in the belief that higher scores in these areas will lead to performance in your job? Look for significant correlations between this test and another established test assessing similar constructs.
Other aspects of validity
Content Validity
Face Validity
What about training?
If no training is required it’s either a simple test which may not suit your needs or a test that may lead you to make errors in interpretation and decision-making due to insufficient training!
Who runs the training? Is it an expert in psychology/psychometrics whose competence has been assessed by external bodies (government registration and psychological societies)?
More information
www.psyasia.com Knowledgebase
www.psychometricassessment.com/blog
www.psychometricassessment.com/training
http://dates.psyasia.com
Hong Kong(+852) 8200 6005
Singapore (+65) 6521 3131
Malaysia (+60) 03 2782 6928
Tags: hr psychometric tests
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
PsyAsia is pleased to advise clients that we have extended our special 50% discount offer for those who register for our Psychometric Test Training Course: BPS Level A & B in Singapore until the end of January. Any client who registers for the Level A and B course will be offered a 50% discount on the Saville Consulting Wave accreditation course that follows the day after the Level B training; and/or, 50% off our Behaviour-based Interview Course which is confirmed for the day immediately before the Level A training. Furthermore, we are pleased to continue to offer a 50% discount off the Behaviour Based Interview Course for any client who registers for our 4-day Human Resource Management Course in Singapore on 22-25 February.
Training places are limited and courses are now beginning to fill, so please register asap to ensure your place. The above discount offers will expire on 31 January.
If you are in Hong Kong, you can also avail the offers by joining our Hong Kong Psychometric Assessment Level A and B course in March.
All course dates and details as well as email links can be found from here: http://dates.psyasia.com
Kindly contact us on Singapore +65 6521 3131 or Hong Kong +852 8200 6005 for full details.
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Posted in BPS Level A & B Certificates, BPS Level A Certificates, BPS Level B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing, Competence in Psychometric Testing, Human Resource Management, Personality Tests, Psychometric Test Training, Psychometric Tests in HRM, Saville Consulting Wave | No Comments »
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
It’s perhaps quite natural to believe that the Chinese personality is so different to others that it requires a special psychometric test to assess it. What better way to sell your new Chinese personality test than to state that it is “high time a test for the Chinese” were developed. However, this throws doubt upon the utility of rigorously developed international psychometric tests of personality.
Given the above, we embarked on a research program to assess whether Chinese people differ significantly comparied to others in terms of personality structure and whether personality tests that purport to assess Chinese Personality are able to predict any more work performance than internationally developed tests have already been proven to do!
You can read our research findings it: personality.cn, our Chinese Personality at Work Research Site.
No time to read the whole site? Here’s a quick summary:
Locally developed psychometric tests which purport to assess “indigenous” aspects of Chinese Personality were found to be less reliable than reputable internationally developed tests of personality. Furthermore, there is a big question as to whether so-called “indigenous” traits are Chinese-specific. Issues such as traditionalism or face also exist in other cultures! Moreover, the research has demonstrated that whatever we choose to believe about Chinese Personality, locally developed (Hong Kong) tests of “indigenous” personality add nothing to the prediction of performance at work that is not already accounted for by reputable internationally developed personality tests.
We present this research in a free HRM webinar which you can watch here. We held a vote at the beginning and end of our webinar whereby we asked attendees if they believed that Chinese Personality is so different that Chinese people need their own personality test. At the beginning of the webinar, the majority of the attendees said yes! By the end of the webinar only one attendee still believed this to be the case! We recommend choosing well designed psychometric tests with high reliability and validity. Personality is a universal construct, thus locally developed tests may have little benefit to the hiring manager!
Tags: chinese personality tests, hong kong psychometric tests, personality and work performance, personality test distributor, personality test training hong kong, personality test training singapore, psychometric personality tests, using psychometric test results
Posted in Competence in Psychometric Testing, Error in Psychometric Tests, Human Resource Management, Personality Tests, Psychometric Test Research, Psychometric Test Webinars, Psychometric Tests in HRM, Reliability of Psychometric Tests, Validity of Psychometric Tests | No Comments »
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
PsyAsia International is pleased to announce a free, 10-week mini-course in psychometric testing. The course is mainly text based and introduce the basics of psychometrics in 10 weekly articles. You’ll learn about what psychometrics is, where it came from, how it is useful, discrimination, reliability, validity, error and more. PsyAsia is Asia’s leading independent provider of psychometric tests and psychometric training. The course however will be invaluable to readers anywhere. It will be interesting for those in HRM or consulting roles using or considering psychometric tests as well as for those about to undergo testing.
To ensure you don’t miss a single instalment, we suggest you follow-us on twitter as each new post will be announced there.
Interested in learning more about psychometric testing for HRM? Keep reading – your first free session is only a week away! You may also like to join our face-to-face psychometric training courses in Singapore or Hong Kong - these range from simple introductory courses through to Certification Courses such as the BPS Level A and BPS Level B Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing. Not in Singapore or Hong Kong? No problem – we also offer both recorded and live online training in psychometrics! For full details please see here or email us.
Tags: free online psychometrics course, free psychometric courses, online psychometric courses, online psychometric training, psychometric test training online, psychometric training in hong kong, psychometric training in singapore
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Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
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| This is a FREE webinar in PsyAsia’s HRM themed webinar series. In this session we are pleased to present research on and answer questions about whether or not Chinese people are significantly different to other major groups and whether any potential differences are likely to impact upon the ability of personality tests to predict performance at work.Some HR people in Asia believe that culture plays such a significant role in personality that indigenous personality attributes need to be assessed at recruitment/selection. To this end, personality tests have been developed “in Chinese for the Chinese by the Chinese”. A significant question to ask is: Do these tests add any prediction over and above that afforded by mainstream personality tests developed by world renowned experts in the field?The above questions will be answered through discussion of the trait model of personality and its biological basis. Peer-reviewed and published research conducted by PsyAsia International’s award-winning Psychologist, Dr. Graham Tyler; award-winning Dr. Peter Newcombe of the University of Queensland; and world-renowned Professor Paul Barrett, formerly of the University of Auckland will be presented in an easy to understand format.
As always, the webinar is open to all HR and related professionals in our region. It is not open to competitors. You must provide your corporate email address when registering – we do not approve free email accounts such as yahoo/google/hotmail/rediffmail etc.
All attendees who remain for the entire session will receive a free pdf Certificate of Professional Development. Hard-copy certificates can also be requested for a fee. |
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Friday, April 16th, 2010
Last week the Singapore-based Straits Times published an article which reported a study carried out at NUS linking testosterone to advantages in leadership. PsyAsia’s Dr. Graham Tyler was asked to comment on the reasearch and he was asked if biological testing might replace psychometric testing in the future! A copy of the article can be downloaded here:
Testosterone and Leadership
There are a number of limitations in the above thinking. Not least the fact that the study was carried out on students – hardly real-world organisational leaders! Also, given that this was a correlational analysis it cannot be inferred that testosterone increases leadership skills. It might actually be the opposite. Finding oneself in leadership scenarios may cause the body to produce more testosterone!
Biological testing is certainly not about to replace psychometric tests in Singapore or anywhere else. Not only is the area contentious it would also bring legal issues into play. We know already that biology plays a role in many aspects of who we are from personality traits to ability and more. However, we also know that the environment, access to resources and simply luck (ie where we find ourselves, who our teachers/mentors are) also play a huge part. Psychometric tests should never be used on their own to inform decision-making processes and neither should any other form of assessment – biological testing, interviews and so forth. However, the use of highly valid tools used in conjunction with each other is a good thing.
Note: In the article, there is a mention that aptitude tests can predict between 9-36% of performance. This is incorrect. The journalist asked about personality tests and was told that traditional personality tests can predict about 9-36% of performance. Aptitude tests are able to predict more than this and more modern personality assessments such as Identity or the Saville Consulting Wave do an even better job than traditonal personality tests!
Tags: ability and job performance, biological testing, Identity Self-Perception Questionnaire, intelligence at work, Intelligence Research, leadership psychometric test, psychometric test singapore, Saville Consulting Wave, using psychometric test results, wave personality test
Posted in Human Resource Management, Intelligence Research, Personality Tests, Psychometric Test Research, Psychometric Tests, Psychometric Tests in HRM, Validity of Psychometric Tests | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
The Amazing Apollo Profile
This free webinar will be facilitated by Mr. Jim Bowden, the developer of the Apollo Profile. The session will be interactive (provided attendees kit themselves out with headphones and a mic!) and Jim will present numerous interesting case studies.
The webinar will cover the following:
• Introduction: The Amazing Apollo Profile- can transform Recruitment, Staff Development, and Organisation Performance –Client example
• Apollo Questionnaire – valid/reliable/comprehensive
• Why is Apollo amazing? Apollo Advantages
• Using and interpreting of Apollo reports with anecdotes
• Recruitment – Accurate, easy, low cost – Case Study using Apollo Best Match in China for filtering 12,000 applicants for 40 Graduate level jobs
• Training and Development – Unique Apollo report PLUS downloadable solutions. Convenient, low cost, motivating
• Organisation Development. Benchmarking: Can analyse and identify current corporate strengths and weaknesses – then create high performing models/culture, identify engagement issues – case studies
• Customising: Develop models that work specifically for your organisation. If your organisation is serious about leadership through people.
• Integrate everything together with flexible multi-purpose Internet Online solutions. Use your own competencies frameworks and vocabulary – examples
• Special Offer – have to listen to Webinar to find out!
Date: Monday, May 17, 2010
Time: 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM SGT
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements
PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP, 2003 Server or 2000
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.4.11 (Tiger®) or newer
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/522465752
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
PsyAsia International is pleased to once again be supporting Singapore’s Human Resource professionals as a sponsor of the Singapore Human Resources Institute’s Annual Human Resource Congress.
The Singapore HR Congress and Business-Connect Exposition 2010 will address the newly derived term of HR TransmutationTM and explore the topic in deeper context. The current economic churning has made it explicitly clear that industry is not just facing another downturn but it is accompanied by impactful structural, demographic and mindset changes across industry and top management cannot afford to respond with anything less than a complete overhaul of the system to survive and sustain. Renowned speakers and leaders from the HR fraternity will share their experiences and provide useful insights on the know-how of managing paradoxes in a turbulent world.
PsyAsia’s clients are entitled to a 35% discount on the price of conference tickets. Please contact us in the first instance to avail of this special offer.
“A strong and capable HR community can be the catalyst and change agents to initiate and implement people development efforts in organisations, and help build stronger capabilities amongst our business leaders and managers.”
PM Lee Hsien Loong
11th World HR Congress 2006 organised by SHRI
PsyAsia International is Asia’s leading independent distributor of Psychometric Tests of Personality and Aptitude. From offices across Asia, including Singapore and Hong Kong, our psychologists assist the world’s top organisations and local governments to recruit, select, assess and retain the best employees. Our services are only offered by fully registered organisational psychologists with years of experience in their field. PsyAsia also offers world-class training in Psychometric Testing in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Online.
Tags: aptitude test distributor, personality test distributor, Personality Tests, psychometric news, psychometric test singapore, singapore hrm, singapore hrm conference, singapore human resources, singapore psychometric tests
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