Should personality assessments be used in the workplace?
The short answer is, “Absolutely!” There is an overwhelming amount of scientific research showing that personality predicts just about any outcome of interest to an organization. The below chart shows some of the many things you can predict by using personality assessments in the workplace. If you care about any of these outcomes, keep reading!
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Read MoreThe concept of the jangle fallacy¹ has been around for almost 100 years, but it seems like we keep falling victim to it. For those not familiar, it is a mistaken belief that two constructs are different because they have different names, when in fact they are the same or almost identical concept. It had […]
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