Personality & Psychometric Tests
Were they Good or Useful ? Most of us would have faced a Personality / Psychometric test sometime in our employment career; either when changing jobs or some time else. It has applicants (working managers in their own right) sitting at tables in a large room, reminiscent of taking the +12 exam. Some would have struggled after discovering that if you were less honest in the early questions, later ones were catching you out. This style of the test- answering a series of questions to assess personality or ability is still in wide use. Educationists and Psychologists say that although the test carries a scientific look, it has several drawbacks and was unsatisfactory even then, and still is. A number of faults are cited … (1) The tests help to entrench and perpetuate the present style of management – which may be poor, (2) They discriminate by assuming that the candidate has some prior knowledge of how they have to work in that organisation, (3) When about half the a