This pilot study suggests that behavioral style may be tied to a students’ grade point. Grade point average after their first semester was lowest for students with high I’s, followed by high D’s, then high S’s and the best grades went to students with an adapted high C behavioral style.
Of the 23 competencies surveyed, all are below national means and their mastery. There are a few exceptions, as a group, is extremely low but please keep in mind that they are being compared to a national workforce mean and not other first-year college students. Nebraska’s College of Engineering was one of the first programs in the nation to gather this data. So, comparison to similar groupings is nearly impossible. More importantly, while documenting student entry levels is useful, what is crucial is identifying what skills our students gain as a result of their programs of study. This study opens many questions that only longitudinal studies can address.
Sadly, the first thing people tend to do when faced with workplace dissatisfaction is to either blame the work or over generalize and assume they have failed. The truth is that many times our behaviors, motivators and skills sets are a mismatch with the job requirements. This case study shows how a job fit can alter our behavioral style.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), drawing their interpretation from the 1964 Civil Rights Act Title VII, states that an employer may not use an employment or hiring practice that, even though neutral on its face and applied to all applicants or employees equally, disproportionately impacts members of protected categories, including divisions by gender, race, disability or veteran status.
The TTI Success Insights 2019 disparate impact study examined behaviors, motivators, Hartman, DNA 23 and DNA 25 to determine whether our assessments created any possibility of contributing significant differences with regard to relevant protected classes during an employment or hiring process. This USA only study found that significant contributions related to the tools themselves are unlikely to be introduced.