How to assess people in high stress jobs
- Organisational Competence & Assessment
- Published on 30 Jun 2012
- Yolande Boshoff
"To create a safe and healthy work environment, it is first of all necessary to determine what is actually happening in the work environment; what levels of stress (physiological as well as psychological) your employees are experiencing while performing their tasks," says a spokesperson for the CSIR.
Newest trends in psychometric testing
- Organisational Competence & Assessment
- Published on 24 Jun 2012
- Frew Murdoch
Did you know psychometric testing can improve your chances of successful recruitment?
In the past, emphasis was often placed on fitting the job to the worker. The job description could be “altered” to suit the employee, promoting employee morale and satisfaction. However, this means of employee selection could be detrimental to the company as it was too flexible, too subjective and did not take the company’s needs into account. As a result of this, psychometric testing was introduced as a more structured and objective means of assessing people for occupational fit.
Does your HR strategy support employees in playing to their strengths?
- Organisational Competence & Assessment
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Karina de Bruin
Employers evaluate strengths when making decisions for appointments, promotions and salary increases. But how often do human resources strategies follow a strengths-based approach to building competence in organisations? We often focus on what employees are doing wrong, rather than what they are doing right, and in doing so, we often deny our employees opportunities for optimising their full potential to the benefit of themselves and our organisations.
Do your staff know who they work for?
- Organisational Competence & Assessment
- Published on 20 Jun 2012
- Angelique Diedericks
All too often, managers and their teams take a very narrow, task-oriented approach to their roles. This is usually because they are so focused on getting the job done, and done well, that they are unable to take a step back to see how they fit into the wider organisational picture.
