Blog

How Fair is Your Recruitment?

A recent CIPD survey of over 500 HR professionals revealed that nearly three-fifths of organisations have a formal diversity strategy to help ensure their ...

A New Look at Risk Psychology in Financial Services

Financial sector risk can be ameliorated by accurate data and adherence to procedures but, ultimately, individuals have to make judgements. Furthermore, research informs us ...

Can Leaders’ Dark Side Personality Traits Define an Organisation’s Culture?

Dark side personality characteristics describe flawed interpersonal strategies which, at their extreme, result in counterproductive behaviours. Such dysfunctional tendencies emerge during new or stressful ...

3 Keys to a Successful 360 Assessment Process

360 assessment has huge advantages, giving employees critical insights to help boost their performance. Handled incorrectly, though however, this powerful tool can become unwieldy. All ...

Perils of Personality Profiling

This was presented at the University of Westminster on 21st April 2015 at a session arranged by the ABP. Key Points Unease that, with ...

Personal Responsibility and Accountability in Heavy Industry

“We have good processes… If we could just get people to follow them we would be fine”. Common rhetoric heard from risk and H&S ...

The People Side of Risk – Identifying the Human Factor using the Risk Type Compass

The key to effective risk management is understanding the Risk Type of your employees or clients. To appreciate the implications for decision making under ...

Accentuate The Positive

In the approach to any general election, media coverage intensifies with commentary from political pundits about what they would do to improve public services. ...

Are you the Nursing Type?

Research from a psychological consultancy company has found nurses tend to score lower than the general population for resilience. Psychological Consultancy Limited (PCL) used ...

Coaching, Risk and Opportunity

In the recent financial meltdown, the risk behaviour of quite a small number of people came near to destroying western culture. This serves to ...

Gender Stereotyping – is There Something in it?

Gillian Hyde’s article, Gender Stereotyping: is there something in it?, features in the spring edition of Women in Trade UK Magazine.   International Women’s Day ...

Latest ROI Data for Hogan Assessments

When you use Hogan’s assessment solutions to help manage your people, you want to know they work. So, year after year, Hogan provides empirical ...