This white paper takes a look at personality, what it is and isn’t, if it can be measured, and the science behind personality-based assessments. The paper explains the difference between “personality tests” which tend to place a person in a box, by assigning a ‘type’ or identifier, and more focused personality-based assessments, which measure defined components of one’s personality.
TTI SI recently received a request to provide a research-supported rationale for TTI SI’s use of natural and adapted DISC graphs in our reports. This is a good reminder that some things are so obvious to us internally that we fail to provide the outside world with the documentation needed to understand our decisions. The graphic separation of the DISC data is a great example. This paper will not only explain how these two graphs provide crucial differentiating information, it will also point out how a single averaged DISC graph can be very misleading when trying to understand human behavior.
The TTI SI Stress Assessment is a diagnostic tool that is focused on workplace culture. The tool exposes potential sources of stress in the following categories: Workplace Demands, Effort/reward balance, Control, Organization change, Management/supervisor issues, social support, and job security. While we all can, and from time to time do, bring our personal issues into the workplace, work-related problems are the only ones that management has control over and therefore must be aware. This brief paper explains the purpose of the stress assessment and provides the research underpinnings for how it was developed.
Technological advancements throughout society are occurring at an ever-increasing rate. Neurological discoveries and associated investigative tools are leading to new understandings of human behavior never before explored. While the future of artificial intelligence for hiring and professional development is making headlines, this science requires time for peer review and refinement of new technologies.