Personality Assessment (PAW)
Personality at Work assesses personality traits of the whole personality as it relates to the world of work, and is aimed at promoting the interests of employer and employee.
PAW is a comprehensive test of 250 test items with 89 scales of personality measurement, five sub-structures with four measuring areas and three supportive factors. It has a total of 60 scales per substructure.
The purpose of PAW is to comprehensively measure personality applicable to the World of Work for the purpose of selection as well as personal and organisational development. It measures personality as a permanent entity as opposed to random behaviour.
PAW measuring areas are:
- Doing and work orientation
- Self and perceptual orientation
- Thinking and styles orientation
- People and relations orientation
- Emotions and feelings orientation
- In addition it includes lie detector, consistency and unnatural exaggeration.
PAW tests
- Emotional intelligence (EQ)
- Entrepreneurial orientation (EO)
- Sales and marketing orientation (SMO)
- Financial orientation (FO)
- Managerial orientation (MO)
It has a lie and consistency monitor and takes about 1,5 hours to complete.
A condensed short PAW is available to use as a scanning tool in pre screening.
PAW is used for selection, promotion and, training and organisation purposes.
In research, no significant differences based on race, language, gender, age, ethnicity, tertiary education and schooling were recorded. It can be applied to individuals with a sixth grade readability capacity and the short PAW on persons on a grade 8 schooling level.
The short PAW must be interpreted by a registered psychologist.
A professionally conducted PAW test gives the employer a trustworthy evaluation of an employee in a long list of fields:
- Primacy of Work (approach to work as the most important aspect of the individual’s career)
- Time orientation
- Effective performance
- Role orientation
- Reliability and stability
- Responsibility
- Independence
- Drive
- Thinking styles
- Socialisation
- Positivity
- Tough mindedness
- Practical vs. Theoretical
- Decision-making
- Interpersonal relations
- Co-operative vs. Competitive
- Influencing others
- Flexibility and adaptability
- Emotional control
- Warmth and encouragement