GUIDE TO
HR-MANAGEMENT
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CEO's Guide to HR-management, Assessment Systems Hungary Kft.
Personnel decisions can determine the
long-term success of a company, thus
they are extremely important to the
leadership process. According to a study1
sponsored by ORACLE, 63% of the CEOs
surveyed believe that human resource
management is one of the factors which
primarily define business success.
PREFACE
AN HR COMPASS
1 Oracle 2012: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/peoplesoft-enterprise/talent-mg-mt-role-bus-strategy-1891829.pdf – p. 16.
SELECTION1
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DEVELOPMENT
LEADERSHIP
How to identify the ideal candidate?
How to help your employees reach their
maximum potential?
How to help your key managers provide the best,
most effective leadership?
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Finding the best candidates, keeping and developing key people, and
forming leaders are objectives with a common foundation in effec-
tive HR management.
How can we make HR decisions in the most professional way?
What tools are available and how should we use them?
The CEO’s guide to HR management presents three chapters provid-
ing guidance to company leaders and HR specialists.
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Based on the examples of multinational companies, we see the
growing importance of HR so that in addition to the CEO and CFO, the
CHRO is the third member of the leadership “triumvirate” and can
also be a part of the informal top management. The CHRO, as a partner,
may support the development of changing business models, deci-
sions and target indicators 2 by using quantifiable information.
These personality-based, measurable, and data-driven solutions
contribute in various ways to the strategic approach of HR in busi-
ness practice.
In The CEO’s guide we present research data regarding a variety of
HR topics: regional leadership differences; gender based leadership
analysis; and, the use of Big Data in HR. We will offer practical ex-
amples to help understand how an IT specialist can become a good
leader, how creative people can function well in a business environ-
ment, what the criteria are for good and bad leaders, or what the 21st
century leadership toolbar looks like.
Warren Buffet famously said: “Predicting rain doesn’t count; building
arks does”. We provide the wood.
2 Harvard Business Review 2015: https://hbr.org/resources/pdfs/comm/ey/19297_HBR_Report_EY_webview.pdf - p. 1.
When searching for new employees, more than 90% of companies
rely on the CV and the unstructured interview to understand their
candidates and to make their employment decisions. Research
shows that these are the least effective tools with which to assess
the candidate’s successful employment and integration potential:
Other tools allow us to radically reduce both the cost of selection and
the fluctuation caused by employee separation.
Experience shows that in most cases we hire employees due to their
hard skills (expertise) and we dismiss them due to a lack of appro-
priate soft skills (target competencies). Therefore, it is no surprise
that new HR methods have recently been implemented by large
companies, to support the contribution of HR in achieving corporate
objectives in addition to the selection of ideal professionals.
As per a study by the Harvard Business Review and Ernst & Young,
the strategic role of HR is becoming more and more important
to employers owing to extensive changes brought about by the
growth of technology as well as the changing business environment.
The driving force in the increase of corporate competitiveness is to
find and develop exceptional talent. In addition, there is a consid-
erable need for the effective use of HR information and predictions
when creating a winning business strategy and an effective manage-
ment decision-making.
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02 - DEVELOPMENT
03 - LEADERSHIP
Competent employees are a company's brand
21st century employer challenges and solutions
Leadership toolkit for HR-development
Good leaders/bad leaders: from self-mastery
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Leadership characteristics, abilities and challenges
Leadership training toolkit
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01 - SELECTION
Best selection practicies
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Leadership selection tools
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This is how much the cost could be of a bad selection decision
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Best selection practices
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Leadershipselection tools
While choosing the best talent may seem an easy task, it actually is
a more complex process requiring an investment in a thorough ana-
lytic process, which produces a valid data-driven decision.
The following chapter will provide information on the structuring,
articulation and measurement of selection requirements, as well as
indicating typical pitfalls and how they can be avoided.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR THE JOB?
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WHAT ARE AN IDEAL CANDIDATE'S FEATURES?
1 - Knowledge of their tasks.
2 - The ability to perform these tasks repeatedly, and competently.
3 - Is motivated to engage in these tasks in the corporate environment.
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Investigation of
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Aptitude
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Organizational
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One of the main challenges in the selection process is the brief win-
dow of time in which to undertake a long-term assessment of a can-
didate's future performance.
Typically the first solutions that come to mind are a CV and unstruc-
tured interview, and these are the techniques we use over 90% of the
time. However, statistically these are the least effective methods
on which to base a prediction, as they leave too much space for as-
sumptions and the impact of charisma.
Best selection practices
WHICH METHOD SHOULD WE USE FOR
CHOOSING JOB CANDIDATES?
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The first step is an in-house assessment of these factors, by observing
highly-performing coworkers.
All other methods are speculative, while data evaluation is a prerequi-
site to a solid decision. The data here is relevant to the skills, personal-
ities and motivation of excellent workers, and can be used to formulate
an ideal employee profile.
Knowledge
Skills
Familiarity with corporate
or departmental culture
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(And can be a source of bias.)
Familiarity with a candidate's professional knowledge (hard skills)
and interpersonal competence (soft skills). Hiring a new employee
for their hard skills does not preclude their eventual drop out due to
a lack of soft skills. An analysis of insufficient skills finds one-third
hard skills and two-thirds soft.
Why do new employees ultimately fail?3
26% Are unable to accept feedback
23% Are unable to recognize and cope with emotions
17% Are unmotivated to work, and
11% Lack appropriate technical skills
3 Leadership IQ 2015: http://www.leadershipiq.com/blogs/leadershipiq/35354241-why-new-hires-fail-emotional-intelligence-vs-skills
WHAT ARE THE SKILLS REQUIRED
FOR MAKING SUCCESSFUL CHOICES?
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Overstating key features:
Most positions are focused on a single key requirement, and so we
tend to overlook other features once a candidate fitting that one re-
quirement is found. Contrarily, basing a decision on one aspect is
never adequate.
DURING A SELECTION PROCESS NOT ONLY THE COMPANY "BUYS" THE CANDIDATE, BUT THE
CANDIDATE ALSO "BUYS" THE ORGANIZATION.
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Individual profile bias:
People tend to consider similar people more suitable than candidates
who are dissimilar, even when profiling candidates for a different
position from their own. “Cloning” ourselves is counterproductive.
First impression bias:
Many candidates will be skilled at appearing ideal in all situations
regardless of their true abilities. Only experienced interviewers or a
strong test application can effectively recognize and filter out this ir-
regularity.
Mutuality:
During the candidate selection process, the organization itself will
also become invested in the candidate. One issue to investigate is
whether the organization can satisfy the candidate's needs.
Conducting a study of 19700 employees, Leigh Branham found that
the main reason employees leave their workplace is that the reality
of their working environment contrasted negatively with what they
had been pitched during the interview.4
4ASAE – The Center for Association Leadership 2015:http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/EUArticle.cfm?ItemNumber=11514
WHAT ARE THE HAZARDS TO AVOID IN ORDER
TO ENSURE A SUCCESSFUL SELECTION?
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The ensuing losses amounted to 155 million dollars per week ac-
cording to an estimate by Businessweek, 30 million in lost stock value
and several hundred million in legal settlements and repair costs.
Determining competence sounds easy, but in fact it's easy to get
wrong; for example by a failure to define requirements such as “ex-
emplary conduct”.5
A job description without competence is like a car without a body.
Even if it's powered by professional know-how, nobody would want
to drive it.
5 ERE - Recruiting Intelligence 2010:http://www.eremedia.com/ere/a-think-piece-how-hr-caused-toyota-to-crash/
THE BETTER THE CANDIDATE'S COMPETENCIES CORRELATE WITH THE JOB REQUIREMENTS, THE BETTER HIS/HER PERFORMANCE AND
ENGAGEMENT WILL BE.
From an organizational point of view, competencies are the knowl-
edge, skills, attitudes and behaviors required to fulfill the functions
needed in the workplace. These requirements help us outline the
complex behaviors the organization would like to see candidates
perform.
According to Dr. John Sullivan, HR specialist, professor and speak-
er, the main cause of Toyota's 2009-2010 scandal was inadequate
HR policy and the resulting lack of competence. Despite applying
the refined Six Sigma system, the company developed a long history
of quality issues. These issues came about due to a combination of
conflicting incentives, a lack of appropriate management skills and
employee learning competence, as well as the absence of construc-
tive criticism and feedback, all HR responsibilities. Following a series
of fatal accidents caused by a faulty brake system and the resulting
worldwide scandal, Toyota was forced to recall nine million vehicles.
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Top leadership competencies:
Social intelligence
Interpersonal skillsPersuasive power
Emotional
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Logical thinking
Strategic
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Decision making
Conflict resolution
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Identifying and measuring competence not only clarify job tasks to
both employers and employees, but more importantly the way they
are to be performed.
Both parties will benefit from using a realistic list to determine the
most suitable candidate, and the degree of compatibility with re-
quirements. This also clarifies performance assessment and devel-
opmen.in order to rule out surprises.
Measuring competence therefore requires exact definitions, as well
as a precisely calibrated measuring instrument. The latter may be an
Assessment Center, interviews or a test application.
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Sales fit:
Job requirement Low fit Medium fit High fit
Self-regulation 0-10 1-15; 95-100 15-95
Ambition 0-19 19-57 57-100
Interpersonal skills 0-10 10-20, 73-100 20-73
Logical thinking 0-12 12-30 30-100
Researchers at Hogan Assessment use seven scales to measure
competence resulting in a test data based, methodically sound, mod-
el profile defining the appropriate competencies for each job.
Thus the Sales Fit Model Profile example shows that on a compe-
tence scale of 0-100, an excellent sales rep would score 30-100 for
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A competence is most useful when defined in clear, easily under-
standable behavioral patterns, whereby we obtain a clear idea of
how a person will behave in light of that particular competence.
A clear definition must not contain irrelevant adjectives like “normal”,
“good”, “and appropriate”. For clarity's sake the competence defini-
tion should come complete with descriptions of acceptable as well as
unacceptable behavior.
An optimal definition enables measuring the competence, by means
of personality assessment tools.
A competence can best be modeled as a dimension. The issue isn't
whether a candidate has the feature, but to what degree that feature
is useful.
WHAT MAKES
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COMPETENCIES SHOULD BE RATHER CONSIDERED AS DIMENSIONS. THE QUESTION IS NOT THAT WE HAVE THEM OR NOT, BUT TO
WHAT EXTENT WE HAVE THEM.
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD
MEASUREMENT TOOL?
Personality assessment procedures provide an unbiased method for
evaluating the level of candidate competencies. However, these tools
must conform to some basic psychometric criteria.
International studies and expert opinions show that a typical fault in
personality assessment systems, such as Myers-Briggs or INFJ, is
that results are not in a direct cause-effect relation to the candidate's
actual abilities and performance, leading to ill-founded decisions
which reduce competitiveness.7 Structured questions and hidden fil-
ter settings used by companies can even result in ethnic or religious
discrimination. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
received nearly 100,000 complaints between 2011-2012. One of the
most extreme was the case of Leprino Foods Inc. of Denver, whose
test and procedure based rejection of 253 candidates resulted in
compensation totaling more than a half million dollars.
7 The Business Journals 2015: http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/how-to/marketing/2015/03/how-useful-is-pre-employment-personality-testing.html?page=all
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Research by Hogan Assessment shows that becoming an excellent
sales rep requires poise and confidence, while excessive stability
compromises efficiency by dulling sensitivity toward the client's sub-
liminal gestures and signals. Another interesting result shows that
extremely high scoring interpersonal skills may also prove to be a li-
ability for a sales rep, indicating a tendency for altruism and favors,
as well as conflict avoidance.
Sales software developer Velocify reached a similar conclusion in
their 2013 study. As a companion to a firm background in technology
and methodology, applying emotion, improvisation and persuasion in
a systematic way are the preferred criteria for working in the world
of sales.6
6 Velocify blog 2013: http://velocify.com/blog/infographic-science-overtaking-art-of-selling/
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THERE ARE OVER 1200 REGISTERED PERSONALITY TESTS ON THE MARKET, MAKING IT EASY TO LOSE ONE'S BEARINGS.
The structuresof competencies
SOLUTION:
OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT
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Observable behaviour
Knowledge
Skills
Characteristics
Motivations
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8 abc NEWS 2012: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/personality-tests-workplace-bogus/story?id=17349051
9 The British Psychological Society: https://ptc.bps.org.uk/test-registration-test-reviews/search-test-reviews
Indicators of good working order for a measurement tool:
Validity:
the tool measures the concept we are assessing;
Reliability:
the measurement doesn't pertain to mood, and is replicable;
Norm enforcement:
average value and mean deviation are accounted for by national or
international reference indicators.8
In case we're unsure if the measuring tool of our choice has these
indicators, it is best to consult the public database on measuring tool
assessment of a recognized independent professional agency such
as the British Psychological Society9, via the internet.
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Relation of personality assessment tools and candidate suitability:
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Using personality assessment tools does more than promote objec-
tivity. A profound knowledge of these measurement procedures con-
tributes a familiarity with “personality types”, that is, a knowledge of
which behavioral patterns are in synergy, and which are mutually
incompatible. We may thus avoid posing unrealistic and unreason-
able requirements toward candidates. We will also gain a sense of
how each job requires a different personality profile, and that each
strength is unavoidably paired with a weakness that needs development.
Comparing the efficiency of different methods, the Hogan study
found that mental ability and personality testing to be most efficient
when corresponding tests produce a correlation of 0,5 – 0,6 for can-
didate suitability.10
WHY USE PERSONALITY
ASSESSMENT TOOLS?
10 Hogan Certification Training workbook
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Competencies are useful not only to the selection process, but play
a role in practically every HR-related procedure.
A well operated competence system will boost organizational soft
skill development, team building, performance evaluation, succes-
sion planning, and talent nurturing to greater efficiency.
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Using a valid, reliable and verified measuring tool can produce
a solid prediction of work performance over a period of several
years, which in turn boosts selection efficiency, and improved re-
sults that will reduce fluctuation. Overall your long term expenses
will be cut by selecting the most suitable coworkers.
Companies on the Fortune 100 list have saved an estimated total of
8 million dollars in relation to improved selection of their financial
consultants. The business consulting companies listed had even
reduced fluctuation by 30% in the space of a single year.11
HOW TO UTILIZE FURTHER OPPORTUNITIES IN
COMPETENCE ASSESSMENT
11 Hogan Business Outcome Highlights 2011:http://www.hoganassessments.com/sites/default/files/brochures/Hogan_ROI_0.pdf
USING THE RIGHT MEASURING TOOL MAY PRODUCE A DEPENDABLE PREDICTION OF WORK
PERFORMANCE OVER THE LONG TERM.
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In their book How Google Works, former Google managers Eric
Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg reveal that recruiting and de-
veloping creative talent for the popular search engine required
strenuous effort. Iconic of the creative and independent-thinking
organizational culture are TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) brainstorm
sessions which are basically open calls for ideas for the entire com-
Creative People
Tend to be more creative, if they score high in the following
Tend to be less creative, if they score high in the following:
Ambition
Excitable
Cautious
Diligent
Dutiful
Security
Sociability
Inquistive
Bold
Mischiveous
Colorful
Power
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Despite the current strategic trend which highlights innovation and
creative people, we mustn't forget that even the most creative work-
force requires certain basic competencies. Whether a colleague
or a startup founder comes up with a revolutionary idea, without
logical thinking they will not be able to convey that idea to others.
A lack of result oriented thinking would result in shortcomings of
development and growth. Therefore competence assessment and
respective development is no less important for our most creative
colleagues.
Studies show that creative personalities are easy to describe as so-
ciable and inquisitive, ambitious and power motivated, all reliable
indicators of a creative profile. However, certain competences do not
correlate with creativity, including the need for security, precautions
and precision, as well as accommodating the needs of others – after
all, creativity needs to “soar”!
Creative workers can use the support of critical, but cooperative
colleagues in a team setting efficiently comprising creative and de-
tail-sensitive, procedure oriented, workers. Brainstorming sessions
and team building will also provide alternative channels for cowork-
ers' creative ideas.
CREATIVE PERSONALITIES IN
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pany staff. Industry gossip has it that the idea for billion-dollar cash
cow Google AdSense first cropped up at an office pool table, while
the game was in full swing. Also worth mentioning is the company's
special practice for selecting experts: decisions are always made in
light of appropriate data (and never based on intuition alone), while
managers personally participate throughout the full selection pro-
cess to ensure the most able candidates are chosen, and assigned to
the most effective teams.12
12 Üzletrész 2015:http://www.uzletresz.hu/vallalkozas/20150929-google-konyv-igy-vezetunk-mi-vallalatvezetes-erich-schmidt-larry-page-jonathan-rosenberg.html
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The lower performing sales reps were overly impulsive (mischievous
scale), easily distractible (colorful scale), and deviate from traditional
solutions (imaginative scale).
Result:
Sales reps conforming to the profile produced 4 million USD income,
while those below criteria only produced 875 thousand USD in income.
The results of salespersons
$4,500,000
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Background:
A leading international beauty industry player and distributor of
perfume and cosmetic products were developing their selection of
successful sales representatives. Reps were responsible for con-
tacting new and old clients and updating them on products, prices
and inventory.
Challenge:
In preparation for the selection process, a job analysis and criteria check
was performed. Sales management were invited to determine the crit-
ical competence dimensions, based on which the Hogan tests could be
used to distinguish excellent as well as below-average performance.
Solution:
Research and job analysis revealed that successful sales reps tend
to show control and confidence (high adjustment) and competitive-
ness (high ambition), enjoy social interaction (high sociability) and
problem solving (high inquisitive), and prioritized developing their
professional knowledge (high learning approach).
CASE STUDY | BEAUTY INDUSTRY
SALESPERSONS13
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TO SUPPORT LONG TERM COLLABORATION, IT IS WORTHWHILE TO MAP AIMS AND INTERESTS -THAT WILL
AFFECT WORKPLACE SATISFACTION- AND DEFINE A DIRECTION FOR CAREER ADVANCEMENT.
Hogan Personality Inventory:
Available in
THE FIRST PERSONALITY TEST ADAPTED TO A BUSINESS SETTING
LANGUAGES
Leadership selection tools
PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT AND
MOTIVATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRES
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Personality assessment is one of the conventional selection methods,
revealing the candidate's competencies, strengths and weaknesses.
All this can be complemented with questionnaires on personal
motivation and values to give an effective indication of personal job
compatibility as well as organizational culture compatibility. Of course,
there are differences between similar tests. Therefore in order to reach
optimal efficiency we should strive to use verified and valid methods
that measure reputation. This ensures an objective measurement of
our candidate.
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AC methodology has the best predictive ability of all selection tools
– even considering the fact that there are certain competencies it
doesn't measure. Using a well-worded and realistic assignment, one
can observe behavior in a live setting, and vat the end of a full-day
session candidates will be tired and off-guard.
ASSESSMENT CENTER (AC)
A WELL-ORGANIZED DAYLONG AC WILL USUALLY REVEAL THE TRUE NATURE OF OUR CANDIDATES.
IT IS A POPULAR METHOD WITH CANDIDATES, GUARANTEEING INTERACTIVITY AND INVOLVEMENT.
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BEI and STAR techniques are simple, yet effective methods.
The concept behind them is that past actions are the best indicators
of future behavior. We should therefore ask candidates to provide
specific examples from their past during our interviews, to verify that
the competencies in question demonstrably exist.
Past actions are the best indicators of future behavior.
BEHAVIORAL EVENT INTERVIEW (BEI) AND SITUATION, TASK, ACTION, RESULT (STAR)
BESIDES SELECTION, THESE TOOLS CAN ALSO BE USED EFFECTIVELY IN JOB ANALYSIS
AND BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR) PROJECTS.
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Counterproductive behavior can take a variety of forms in the workplace.
Some minor and insignificant misbehavior such as the appropriation
of office stationary have no negative consequence for the organization.
Yet with certain sectors and jobs we must proceed with caution, and
even during the selection process assess the risk of counterproduc-
tive behavior, even unconscious behavior, in our candidates.
Though these behaviors aren't clearly negative at first glance, some
people out of human orientation and firm belief will act out in this
way. This may in turn have a devastating effect on the company, and
it is therefore best to measure counterproductive workplace be-
havior as a precaution.
FILTERING OUT COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
MEASURING COUNTERPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR CAN PREVENT DAMAGE TO THE ORGANIZATION'S IMAGE.
IT IS A USEFUL TOOL IN PREDICTING THEFT, FRAUD AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT MANIPULATION.
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Measuring cognitive abilities in the context of HR usually means
measuring general mental ability (GMA) to think, to find relationships
and patterns in verbal, numerical and abstract/figural information.
GMA involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think ab-
stractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from
experience. According to research findings GMA represents the single
best predictor of job performance and performance in trainings
within wide range of job positions, but especially within more com-
plex ones.
COGNITIVE TESTING
IT IS RECOMMENDED TO USE A COGNITIVE MEASUREMENT TOOL THAT DIFFERENTIATES BETWEEN CANDIDATES WITH EXCEPTIONAL
GENERAL MENTAL ABILITY IN ORDER TO AVOID THE SO CALLED “CEILING EFFECT”, A LIMITATION OF
SEVERAL COGNITIVE MEASUREMENT TOOLS FOR MANAGERIAL AND EXPERT JOB POSITIONS.
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21st century employer challenges and solutions
Leadership toolkit for HR-development
In our hectic, modern world there is an assumption that constant
development and adaptation is all that is needed to keep a product
or company in the market. Yet we tend to neglect the development
of one major factor in these market processes.
The following chapter is focused on the key area of Human Resource
Development. We offer an outlook on 21st century challenges, and
useful supporting examples so that your personnel development
program will keep you at the top of the game.
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In order to give our colleagues the best and most efficient support,
it is best to determine weaknesses on an individual level and come
up with personalized development plans. This will not only benefit
employee satisfaction and market value, but also lend the organiza-
tion a competitive edge.
Competent employees are a company's brand
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15 ManpowerGroup 2015: http://www.manpowergroup.com/wps/wcm/connect/db23c560-08b6-485f-9bf6-f5f38a-43c76a/2015_Talent_Shortage_Survey_US-lo_res.pdf?MOD=AJPERES – p. 27.
The importance of development and leadership training programs
were highlighted in a study by Rosalinde Torres, a partner of Boston
Consulting Group. Of the 4000 companies surveyed in the study, 58%
were unable to train staff to fill leading positions for managing com-
plex, 21st century scenarios, despite their corporate training, coaching
and development programs. One can conclude that at least some of
those corporate leadership training programs are due for a major
overhaul in the near future.14
Keeping and training our employees is an important aspect of hiring,
considering that 32% of European employers have a problem finding
new talent.15
EMPLOYERS WHO REPORT FACING DIFFICULTIES FILLING JOB VACANCIES IS PRESENTLY HIGHER
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Like a chain, a group is only as strong as the weakest member.
This shows that continuous development and training for employees
is an essential step toward success, both on an individual and corpo-
rate level.
There are other benefits to organizational development:
It contributes to a more harmonious and positive company atmos-
phere; promotes proactivity and increases employee satisfaction
and commitment. Personality development is a tool to keep your
company up-to-date and stable, which in turn improves client sat-
isfaction and financial indicators. The effect isn't instant; these are
long-term benefits.
In case you are harboring any doubts about employee development
as a potential loss through fluctuation (making your investment
'pointless') then ask yourself this question: What if you did not make
that investment and underdeveloped employees remained?
ADVANTAGES OF PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT FOR COMPANIES AND EMPLOYERS
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Often excellent professional work is rewarded through promotion,
and typically the new leadership position might prove uncomfortable,
performance and team cohesion drop. What are the reasons behind
this phenomenon?
Based on a survey of nearly 300 IT-professionals, the following ex-
planations were deduced: The study17 showed that IT workers score
significantly higher than average on precision and diligence, typically
with introverted behavior and a team player attitude. These are
contributing factors to individual success in the field, yet success in
leadership requires the exact opposite. Leadership tasks demand
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16 ERE - Recruiting Intelligence 2010:http://www.eremedia.com/ere/a-think-piece-how-hr-caused-toyota-to-crash/
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LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS 80% "ON THE JOB" FROM OUR COLLEAGUES AND LEADERS, WHICH IS WHY FORMING AN
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Leaders today are no longer limited to leading individual employees,
but primarily focused on organizing teams. Leading a team is a com-
plex process, requiring psychological insight and strategic thinking.
Leaders need to see the “big picture” as well as individual team
members. They need to find the way to unite the group and lead them
to success, with regard to individual needs as well as development.
Most importantly, leaders must recognize the needs of the team, in-
cluding how these needs can be harmonized with their shared goals.
Leaders not only instruct but show the way; they do not simply con-
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Of course IT experts can make good leaders too, with appropriate de-
velopment and support – in this case, through forming an ambitious
attitude and a balance in logical thinking. It is an attainable goal.
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efficient delegation and prioritization skills, qualities that highly pre-
cise people might find problematic. Also requisite are a firm and out-
come oriented manner, deliberate career building and a drive toward
challenges, all contrary to the attitudes of successful team players.
The following diagram shows the relevant competencies that illus-
trate how an excellent professional does not necessarily make an
excellent leader.
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Solution:
Following these assessments, Hogan leadership development
coaches used test results to conduct 2 hour feedback sessions with
participants, revealing the personal competencies which bolster
leadership success – not only in their present positions, but as future
corporate leaders.
Result:
At the end of this process, participants evaluated each phase of the
talent support program, giving Hogan tests and their respective de-
velopment plan schemes an overall score of 96 out of 100. In con-
clusion, participant comments included “…this was a turning point
for my career.”, “…an eye-opener to some key issues.”, “…respectful
toward my present state, but gave powerful suggestions to what I
might yet become.”
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Background:
An American-based tech company with 80,000 employees world-
wide chose Hogan tools to find and develop high-potential talent.
This global need was driven by international expansion, market com-
petitiveness and HR resourcefulness.
Challenge:
A previous development program focused on the TOP 250 leaders,
and Talent Management faced a great challenge taking this process
to the next level, involving 2600 leaders. With ten times more par-
ticipants, preliminary assessments and individual development plan
feedback were provided using Hogan tests.
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ROI-growth via change management programs18
Recognition as a motivating force19
Companies with professional change management programs: 143%
Companies without, or with inadequate professional change man-
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Leaders with effective evaluation and feedback -
with recognition program: 55%
without recognition program: 36%
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Various personality assessment procedures and reports serve to
highlight points requiring improvement, and provide effective sup-
port to leadership work throughout the process. They can be used
to define the strengths that deserve focus and will be assets to the
development process. Not only does this bring out areas requiring
development, we also get support for implementing the development
plan. Exploring individual characteristics will lead us to the most ef-
fective method to achieve personal development. Hogan reports spe-
cialize in offering specific suggestions and coaching tips to support
development processes.
Leadership toolkit for HR-development
PERSONALITY TESTS
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PERSONALITY TESTS MAP OUT AN IMAGE OF PERSON-
JOB AND PERSON-ORGANIZATION FIT. THIS ENABLES
THE GENERATION OF PERSONALIZED DEVELOPMENT
PLANS WHICH GUARANTEE PERSONAL SUCCESS.
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Training for various soft skills is generally effective in most fields.
With leaders it is not only efficient but indispensable. Developing
personality-specific abilities has recently gained key importance as
leaders seek to answer questions as “How can I motivate my em-
ployees?” “How should I lead my team toward success in today's
changing world?” or “What can propel me from being merely good, to
becoming excellent?”
It follows that 21st century training technique isn't about best prac-
tices, but rather complex abilities such as EQ, change management,
or developing and motivating others.
SOFT SKILL TRAINING
SOFT SKILL TRAINING SUPPORTS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, WITH A 70-20-10 PROPORTION OF PRACTICE, INTERACTION AND
THEORY, RESPECTIVELY.
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Using personality tests we can set up a diagnosis as a solid founda-
tion for our long term development plan. The result is a personalized
development plan and an individually adaptable Talent Manage-
ment program. Further advantages of personality testing are the
easy competence assessment of young talent, even without direct
experience of their abilities. Using tests, we can determine existing
competencies at the very outset of the program, as well as areas for
improvement. This is a necessary step to start a genuine personal-
ized, value-added program. Personality based reports are available
to us not only during the diagnostic phase but support the work of
leaders and HR experts throughout the entire proces
TALENT MANAGEMENT
THE APPLICATION OF TALENT MANAGEMENT ARE ESSENTIAL IN IDENTIFYING HIGH-POTENTIAL
INDIVIDUALS, SUCCESSION PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT OF KEY PLAYERS AND STARTUP SUPPORT.
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360° SURVEYS CAN BE USED TO EVALUATE PERFORMANCE, AS PART OF A TALENT
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Leaders can best achieve development through continuous feed-
back, yet the higher their position, the more their power prevents
obtaining direct feedback. The most useful feedback will come from
360° surveys.
Processing a 360° survey is a lot like switching from paper maps to
GPS: while both are helpful at showing our goal, a GPS will also pin-
point where we are now in relation to our end goal.
Areas of use:
• Best used for developing personality and leadership skills rather
than evaluating performance,
• Most efficient when combined with detailed evaluation,
• Can be used for individual and group diagnostics and develop-
ment planning.
• Nearly 52% of companies use 360° evaluation on a comprehen-
sive corporate level. 75-80% of 360° reports are used for indi-
vidual, team or corporate development.
• Giving feedback also supports long term HR processes. 75%
of major corporations reported positive impact on profitability
indicators.20
360° SURVEY
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A powerful tool both for personal and professional development,
coaching is a flexible and custom-fit method. Participants may
choose the coach they wish to work with. The coaching toolkit is as
varied and versatile as needed to encompass all emerging leader-
ship-related and personal issues, and offer solutions. Coaching
helps leaders solve 21st century problems, find new opportunities for
adaptation and inspire further development.
COACHING
COACHING CAN BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO SUPPORT INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT, PERSONAL BRANDING
AND CAREER PLANNING.
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DCs are excellent tools for observing the abilities of develop-
ment subjects in a controlled and corporate-specific environment.
Each exercise, as indeed the entire DC, is focused on relevant com-
petences in a transparent and user-friendly structure. This provides
observers an opportunity to view the candidate objectively. Both
strengths and areas for improvement are revealed using DC, which
enables a ranking order.
DEVELOPMENT CENTER
DEVELOPMENT CENTER GIVES EXCELLENT SUPPORT FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING, HELPING TO IDENTIFY DEVELOPMENT
POINTS THAT ARE IN LINE WITH YOUR GOALS.
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Leadership training toolkit
To ensure organizational success, one must do more than pick out the
best talent for employment; it is equally important to identify leaders
and to develop leadership qualities in employees. The personal char-
acter and abilities of a leader garner a growing amount of attention.
Leaders have to face a broad range of challenges and their coping
methods are decisive to organizational success. The following section
will reflect on this fact, and explore leadership abilities and compe-
tencies as well as the tools needed to attain these qualities.
HOW TO GET FROM GOOD TO GREAT?
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Motivates others. Only 44% of employees report being recognized
and rewarded for their efforts.22
Leadership tasks include assembling and maintaining a high-per-
formance team. . Not only must leaders be excellent and seasoned
professionals, they also need to develop a set of specific skills.
Among the foremost leadership skills are prioritizing and delegat-
ing, outcome-oriented thinking, employee motivation and develop-
ment. What makes a good leader is not immediately apparent to the
outside observer. No matter how ambitious and eager, a candidate
will not make a good leader without adequate social skills. Someone
may have the potential for leadership but is not motivated to act on it.
Such people will often make effective project leaders, but would be
less successful leading larger groups.
Good leaders/bad leaders: from self-mastery to
emotional intelligence
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While good leaders are not easily recognizable, a bad leader is easy to
spot. Poor leadership skills and incompetence are characterized by
employee dissatisfaction and decreased performance. Leaders also
display a range of symptoms, such as excessive confidence, conflict
avoidance, or perfectionism.
In 2012, employee dissatisfaction with leaders was found to be high-
est in the following countries: Italy, South Africa, Germany, Poland,
Denmark, Hong Kong, Sweden, Hungary, France and Switzerland.23
Poor leadership is most frequently based on poor or invalid selection
methods, poor leadership competence and a lack of stress manage-
ment methods.
Organizations frequently reward excellent employees with pro-
motions to leadership positions, and find that in the course of a few
months the new position doesn't fit, performance is down as is em-
ployee efficiency. The reason is professional performance is not an
indicator of leadership skills. Leadership requires specific personality
traits, which must be considered when selecting a leader.
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Mischievous
Reserved
They tend to be impulsive, limit-testing, and at times, devious.
If your boss is like that:
Reserved leaders are indifferent to the feelings of others.
If your boss is like that:
Remember that for them
the truth is negotiable.
Remember that they
care about business
and not staff morale.
They don’t mean it when
they are being charming.
Won’t communicate,
so you need to do it
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Don’t sign up for
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Excitable
Display dramatic emotional peaks and
valleys regarding people and projects.
If your boss is like that:
Remember that they
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Try to give them as much
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No surprises.
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According to the model developed by Dr Robert Hogan, emotional intelligence
consists of these six competencies:
Awareness:
The degree to which a person seems in touch with his or her emotions.
Regulation:
The degree to which a person seems able to maintain positive emo-
tional states.
Influence:
The degree to which a person seems able to intentionally affect oth-
ers' moods, thoughts and behaviors.
Detection:
The degree to which a person seems aware of others' emotions
and thoughts.
Expression:
The degree to which a person seems able to effectively communicate
desired emotional states to others.
Empathy:
The degree to which a person seems able to feel what others are feeling.
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The topic of emotional intelligence is unavoidable as it not only enables
efficient workplace behavior, but also conflict management, general
well-being, and the balance between the workplace and private life.
It follows that EQ is a paramount feature of leadership success.
According to a study, 95% of Canadian leaders surveyed report a
need for improvement in this area, and 65% said employee stress
management would improve their own work performance.26
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Male leaders' sociability scores were also higher, indicating that they
are somewhat better networkers, and may be more attention seek-
ing, often confusing activity with efficiency, unlike female leaders.
Interpersonal sensitivity showed definite female dominance, indi-
cating that women value quality relationships more, but only at the
expense of their task-orientation.
Finally, female leaders had elevated scores in prudence, demon-
strating a higher degree of thoroughness than male leaders who re-
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Is there a difference between successful female and male leaders?
A study27 surveying 200 female and male leaders showed that sta-
tistically significant differences were manifest in four basic person-
ality areas. These are: ambition, sociability, interpersonal sensitivity
and prudence.
Ambition scored highest in male leaders, though female leaders also
scored above average in this trait.
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Competence in stress management was again common ground in
Hungarian and Romanian leaders, both tending to use confronta-
tional strategies, displaying high self-esteem and exhibitionism
scores. Slovakian leaders only retained the exhibitionism trait. Czech
leaders, contrarily, were set on managing uncertainty by distancing
themselves in a cautious and detached manner.
Another surprising find, contrary to our expectation of leaders typ-
ically scoring higher on status and/or financial needs, these orien-
tations were only apparent for Romania in terms of power (RO 62%,
SK 56%, CZ 53%, HU 53%) and Hungary in terms of profit (HU 56%,
CZ 50%, SK 52% RO 51%). Complementary high-scoring values were
tradition for Romanians, altruism for Hungarians, and above-aver-
age security scores for Czechs and Slovaks.
These disparities in regional leadership profiles indicate that though
leaders from all countries conformed to good leadership criteria ver-
ified with evaluations (high stability, ambition and logical thinking)
their employees must all adapt to different leadership styles, behavior,
demands and motivation techniques due to national diversity.
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Regional leaders – is there any difference?
It is widely believed that a good leader should be deliberate, pur-
poseful, profit-oriented and strategic minded. Do the facts back
up this belief? We used Hogan tests to survey 1000 leaders in the
Central Eastern European region.28 The study was conducted in
Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary seeking to com-
pare the qualities of leaders in these respective countries.
Surveying basic personality, values and leadership pitfalls in a single
package, the overall reply to the starting question is: Yes, and no.
Leaders from all four nations seemed to have similar patterns in
their deviation from social average values. They shared a relatively
high level of ambition, being more competitive, definitive and per-
formance-oriented than the local average. But this is also the point
where their similarities end.
While Romanian (62), Slovakian (55) and Hungarian (62) leaders all
scored above average for persistence and composure, Czech (44)
leaders were actually more sensitive and temperamental than average.
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Professional talent management and HR analytics are rapidly ex-
panding in the business world. According to a study by Deloitte,
currently 39% of companies are planning to introduce pilot HR and
talent management techniques, while 27% already have an HR-tech-
nique specific strategy.29 Another study by Tower Watson30 found
that HR-related Big Data use and analytically allocated funding
were already among the top 3 corporate HR expense items for 2015,
amounting to almost 12 billion dollars in total over the last couple
of years.31
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30 Tower Watson 2014:https://www.towerswatson.com/DownloadMedia.aspx?media={B8B9A04C-7DB9-498F-9BAE-23FA41E6382F} – pp. 13., 15.
31 Deloitte 2014:http://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/de/Documents/human-capital/race-to-the-cloud-ghc-trends-2014.pdf – p. 3.
Being a leader comes with challenges and a continued struggle
against stress, so being in control of one's own extreme and overcom-
pensating behaviors is a great contribution to efficiency. In order to
adapt to these situations, a leader needs self-knowledge, not only of
strengths but also of areas that need improvement, as well as certain
pitfalls. The Hogan Development Survey is a professional support tool
that helps identify our typical stress reactions. It meshes perfectly with
the leadership coaching process, to push beyond the comfort zone and
enable a more goal oriented focus for leaders and coaches.
Leadership training toolkit
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Level 4: Predictive AnalyticsDevelopment of predictive models, scenario planning
Risk analysis and mitigation, integration with strategic planning
Segmentation, statistical analysis, development of "people models"Analysis of dimensons to understand cause and delivery of actionable solutions
Level 3: Strategic Analytics
Operational reporting for benchmarking and decision makingMulti-dimensional analysis and dashboards
Level 2: Proactive - Advanced Reporting
Ad-Hoc Operation ReportingReactive to business demands, data in isolation and difficult to analyze
Level 1: Reactive - Operational Reporting
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Predictive analysis is the most advanced level in HR Big Data,
moving beyond dry data crunching and solving current problems.
In a study done by Bersin by Deloitte, it was revealed that only 4% of
companies are currently using these technologies in predictive data
analysis and decision support.32
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ness psychometric data evaluation. Information available for sup-
porting the evaluation process is a multitude of diversified data
including:
DEMOGRAPHIC:
gender, age, education, Linkedin networks
PERFORMANCE:
project profitability, revenue, closed deals/projects statistic,
other KPI's
REPUTATION:
360° survey results
POTENTIAL:
personality and ability test scores
HR & BUSINESS:
vacation, innovation stats, overtime, complaint stats, client-dissatis-
faction, current position history, salary, promotions, training courses
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35 McKinsey, Aberdeen Group In Harvard Business Review 2014: https://hbr.org/resources/pdfs/tools/17065_HBR_Workday_Whitepaper_online.pdf – p. 1.
Using innovative talent management and HR analytical tools, analysis
can achieve impressive results even in the short term. Based on the
McKinsey study, companies using talent management realize up to
30% more profit. Aberdeen Group found 11% higher corporate re-
turns for companies using sophisticated HR analytics.35
33 BBC News 2015:http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34384668
34 Quartz 2015:http://qz.com/513028/deloitte-no-longer-wants-to-know-which-university-its-job-applicants-attended/
Predictive methods can foresee the probability of employees leav-
ing the company, the common qualities shared by top coworkers, as
well as how these methods can be integrated into the selection and
development system. Predictive methods also pinpoint the present
and future shortcomings of employees.
Intelligent Team Report is a predictive data mining HR tool that uses
all available data to support optimizing our human-related decisions,
thereby making the method more accessible to leaders.33
Recently HR Big Data was applied by consulting firms Deloitte, Ernst
and Young and Price WaterhouseCoopers in Great Britain to revolu-
tionize their recruitment systems. Deloitte used software from the
HR firm Rare to shift their selection focus from graduates of the
famous British elite universities to genuinely ambitious candidates.
They no longer consider university degrees in their selection proce-
dure, preferring to systematically assess candidates' personal back-
ground, achievements and experience.34
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successfully and employee turnover was initially reduced to 8, 64%,
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In 2004, T-Mobile in the Czech Republic set out to reduce its call
center employee expenditure. Faced with extremely high employee
turnover, they needed a solution to maximize employee retention.
Challenge:
The project aimed to reduce turnover from 13, 10% to under 10%.
The problem was indisputably rooted in the selection process,
though evaluation showed that current recruitment and selection
were tuned to optimal efficiency.
Solution:
The only opportunity for development lay not in the process, but the
validated data. Evaluating HR-related, psychometric and business
data revealed the performance scores of call center staff, as well as
their relevant competencies, and the results were fed back into the
selection process.
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