Articles, Free Surveys, White Papers, Case Studies, and Books

Introductions to Human Resource Assessments:

• Understanding Human Resource Assessments (Five-Minute Flash Presentation)
• Five Ways to Answer the Question: Why Do We Need Assessments?
• Seven Qualities of Highly Effective Human Resource Measurement Tools

Quick Links to Books & Articles

• Employee Engagement, Commitment, Morale: Employee Surveys
• Hogan Assessments: Employee Personality Testing
• Career Tests and Assessment: Career Test Overviews
• Executive Assessment: Leadership Versatility Index
• Clark Wilson Task Cycle® Surveys: 360 Degree Feedback
• Employee Engagement Research: Power of Full Engagement
• Selection of Fundraising Professionals: Nonprofit Edge
• Overseas Assignment Inventory & Global Assessment Inventory: Expatriate Assessment

Visitor Favorites

• Human Resource Books of interest to site visitors

Free Online Self-tests with Personal Reports

• Power of Full Engagement Profile
• Focus Energy Balance Indicator
• Global Assessment Inventory
• Leadership Versatility Index
• Blind Spots Profile

Employee Surveys

• Article: Thoughts on Motivation, Morale, Commitment and Engagement
• Article: "Will You Take This Survey?"
• Article: "Gain Insight About Your Company"
• Article: Ready for a high performance work culture?
• Article: Connecticare Employee Survey Leads to Action
• Article: Employee Opinion Questionnaires: What Employers Ask, What Employees Say
• Checklist: Ready to succeed with your next employee survey?

Our Employee Survey Books, Complete with Hundreds of Questionnaire Items:

• Employee Opinion Questionnaires: 20 Ready-to-Use Surveys That Work
• Employee Surveys: Practical and Proven Methods, Samples, Examples
• Employee Survey Question Guidebook

Employee Personality Testing

• The Business Case for Personality Assessments from Hogan Assessments
• Why is Personality Testing Important to Recruitment? by R. Hogan and J. Hogan
• Can Personality Tests Be Fooled? By Robert Hogan, Ph.D.
• New Test from Hogan Assessment Systems: Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory
• The Competency Connection: Screening Candidates Through Personality Testing With Competency Assessment
• Job Candidate Personality Testing: What Can a Hiring Employer Expect?
• Personality Testing Grows in the Workplace
• Personality and 360 Assessment in Executive Development: Avoiding Career Derailment
• Faking It: Can Applicants ‘Outsmart’ Personality Tests?
• Can Personality Tests and 360 Feedback Help Executives Develop Charisma?
• Consultant Values Hogan Assessment Inventories
• Hiring Practices That Improve Employee Quality and Reduce Turnover

Books about Personality Tests for Employees

• The Hogan Guide: Interpretation and Use of Hogan Inventories
• Personality and the Fate of Organizations
• Handbook of Personality Psychology
• Big Five Assessment
• Personality: Theories & Applications
• Personality Psychology in the Workplace
• Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business
• Choosing to Lead
• Why CEOs Fail
• The Owner’s Manual for Personality at Work
• Psychological Testing at Work
• Ace the Corporate Personality Test

Career Tests & Assessments: White Papers

• Tests and Assessments for Career Direction: An Overview
• Three Steps to Get the Most from Career Tests and Assessments

360 Degree Feedback

Task Cycle® Surveys from the Clark Wilson Group

• Nonprofit Leaders Rate Highest in 360-Degree Reviews (pdf).
• Design Elements in the Task Cycle® Surveys
• What Is the Theory Behind the Task Cycle Surveys?
• What's the Meaningful Measures Technical Manual?
• How Clark Wilson Group and the Task Cycle Surveys Began
• Academic Research on Clark Wilson Group's Validated Surveys
• Value of Combined 360 Personality Testing and 360 Feedback
• How are norms developed for the Clark Wilson Group's Task Cycle® surveys?
• How is the concept of validity applied to the Task Cycle® surveys?
• What is the Value of Validated 360 Feedback?
• Can Personality Tests and 360 Feedback Help Executives Develop Charisma?

Custom 360 Degree Feedback

• How Can We Increase Job Competency with 360 Feedback?
• How Does PPI Customize a 360 Feedback Questionnaire?
• Measure Values with 360 Feedback
• Measure Transmission of Values with 360 Feedback

360 Feedback Basics

• 360 Degree Feedback Overview
• Are You Ready to Succeed with 360 Feedback?
• When Is 360 Feedback Appropriate?
• Where Does 360 Feedback Fit in the Survey World?
• Personality and 360 Assessment in Executive Development: Avoiding Career Derailment

Books about 360 Degree Feedback & Task Cycle® Surveys

• How and Why Effective Managers Balance Their Skills
• Organizational Behavior
• Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business
• Feedback for Managers
• Choosing to Lead
• Measures of Leadership

Leadership Versatility Index

• Developing Versatile Leadership, from MIT Sloan Review, by Robert Kaplan and Robert Kaiser

Books related to the Leadership Versatility Index

• The Versatile Leader
• The Perils of Accentuating the Positive
• Beyond Ambition
• Internalizing Strengths
• Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadship

Power of Full Engagement & Employee Engagement Profiles

• Five Ways Employers Can Create a More Satisfying Work Environment
• New Research: Employee Job Satisfaction Related to Individual Energy Management
• Fun at Work
• Sleep Is the Culprit

Books related to the Power of Full Engagement

• The Power of Full Engagement
• The Power of Story
• Stress for Success
• The Corporate Athlete: How to Achieve Maximal Performance in Business and Life
• Mentally Tough: The Principles of Winning at Sports Applied to Winning in Business
• Toughness Training for Life: A Revolutionary Program for Maximizing Health, Happiness and Productivity

Selection of Fundraising Professionals

• They Can Sell But Can They Do Fundraising?
• Validated Fundraiser Assessments for the Nonprofit Sector

Most Visited Articles on Performance Programs' Site and Blog:

• 1. Faking It: Can Job Applicants 'Outsmart' Personality Tests?
• 2. Personality Tests Improve Hiring Practices
• 3. Seven Qualities of Highly Effective Human Resource Measurement Tools
• 4. Job Candidate Personality Testing: What Can a Hiring Employer Expect?
• 5. Understanding Human Resource Assessments (Flash Presentation)
• 6. Employee Opinion Questionnaires: What Employers Ask, What Employees Say
• 7. The Competency Connection
• 8. Executives Can Avoid Career Derailment Through Personality Tests
• 9. Achieving a High Performance Organizational Culture
• 10. Fun at Work a Predictor of Job Satisfaction
• 11. Are We Having Fun (at Work) Yet?
• 12. Can Personality Tests and 360 Feedback Help Executives Develop Charisma?
• 13. Employees Push Back on Too Many Employee Surveys
• 14. Can Personality Tests Be Fooled?
• 15. Hogan Business Reasoning Inventory
• 16. Dessert Before Dinner: Pass the M&Ms (Motivation and Morale)
• 17. Five Ways Employers Can Create a More Satisfying Work Environment
• 18. Developing Versatile Leadership (from MIT Sloan Management Review) (PDF)
• 19. What Is a Quick Questionnaire? Short Surveys in Organizational Measurement (PDF)
• 20. Positive Organizational Psychology