Strategic HR: Expanding the Power of Personality Assessments

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Strategic HR: Expanding the Power of

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Jarrett Shalhoop

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Strategic HR: Expanding the Power of

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Strategic HR: Expanding the Power of

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Jarrett Shalhoop

Senior Consultant, Global Alliances

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STRATEGIC HR: EXPANDING THE POWER OF PERSONALITY ASSESSMENTS

Jarrett H. Shalhoop, Ph.D. Hogan Assessments

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What is Personality?

Common Applications of Personality in HR

Defining Strategic HR

Implications for Individual Assessment

Case Studies

Questions

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Click to edit Master title style Personality

State: Situational influences on behavior Trait: Characteristics that influence behavior across situations Observable Characteristics: Identity vs. Reputation

State vs. Trait Debate

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• How are personality assessments used in your organization? (check all that apply) – Employee selection

– Leadership development

– Coaching

– Succession planning

– Team building

– Other

– We do not use personality assessment

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Click to edit Master title style Typical Applications

E M P L O Y E E S E L E C T I O N Characteristics that promote performance

L E A D E R S H I P D E V E L O P M E N T Enhance self-awareness and create development plans

C O A C H I N G Targeting specific behavioral patterns

T E A M D Y N A M I C S Interaction styles and conflicts

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Click to edit Master title style Typical Applications

Used to improve decisions on an individual or small team basis

Few organizational-level analyses

Not used to inform large-scale decisions

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Definition

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• Views people as a key asset • Source of competitive advantage • Antithetical to a systems perspective

Shaping policies, processes, or strategy around the management of talent

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• How often are individual assessment data used to inform strategic HR management decisions in your organization?

– Never

– Almost never

– Occasionally

– Frequently

– Always

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Strategic Implications

In aggregate, individual data inform about the broader workforce

Data are of substantial value for strategic decision making

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Strengths Shortcomings Work Styles Shared Values

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Global Pharmaceutical Organization

Case Study: Recruitment

3,500 candidates

2 sales positions

• Relationship-based sales role

• Technical sales role

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• Personality assessment used to

evaluate candidates • Research-based target profile

used for screening

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Sales Role 1 (blue)

•Recruiting close to profile

•Lots of qualified candidates

Sales Role 2 (red)

•Quality of recruitment pool may be questionable

• Improve pre-screening processes

Case Study: Recruitment

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Transportation and Logistics Services

• Two personality assessments

used to develop high-potential employees

•Day-to-day style •Potential derailers

Case Study: Organizational Design

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• Fortune 500 • Top 25 largest global employers • More than 1,500 high-potential

managers across 10 years

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Day-to-Day Derailers

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Interpretation:

• Assertive

• Quiet

• Process-oriented

• Practical

• Reserved

• Micromanagers

• Conflict averse

Manager Profile Results

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• Local decision-making is more focused on operational matters

• Key account relationships lie with CRMs, not senior country/regional managers

• Empower local decision making

• Managers to engage in key account relationship management

Case Study: Organizational Design

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Restructuring Recommendations

• Talent lies with execution

• Task-focused managerial profiles

Assessment Data Suggest

Outcomes

Click to edit Master title style Cross-cultural Implications

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Personality differs across cultures

Personality has implications for leadership, engagement, negotiation, relationships, integrity, etc.

These attributes are important for multi-national organizations

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Leadership in China

• Guanxi

• Importance of “Face”

• Collectivist

Leadership in the U.S.

• Competitive

• Assertive

• “Great man” theory

Cross-cultural Implications

Data support these different leadership styles

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Day-to-day • Consensus building

• Confrontational

• Process-oriented

Derailers • Low autonomy

• Confront issues

• Demanding of DRs

Cross-cultural Implications

Day-to-Day Derailers

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Meaningful Differences

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Cross-cultural Implications

• Global competency modeling

• Leadership styles

• Training and development program design

• Centralized talent management programs

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Strategic Implications

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Summary

• Current use of personality data is limited

• These data are very informative

• Appropriate analyses can yield new insights

• Strategic HR decisions can be improved though consistent assessment programs

• The added value of this information is rarely considered

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Jarrett H. Shalhoop, Ph.D.

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