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Trouble with Personality Tests
Personality tests are commonly used for hiring in organisations. Personality tests attempt to measure a broad range of basic traits, such as the Big Five Personality traits or Emotional Intelligence. Although these may provide useful information on how to describe a person, research has repeatedly shown that they do little to predict how well a person will perform in a given job. Academic researchers are re-emphasizing what Chally reported over 30 years ago -personality tests are simply too broad to predict on-the-job performance. Chally, on behalf of the US Justice Department, found it necessary to research solutions well beyond the accuracy of this type of assessment; to identify and measure very precise, job-specific competencies, behaviours, and skills that have been scientifically shown to predict on-the-job sucess.

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Sales force productivity: Eight Practices to Ensure Your Sales Success
We have never needed to improve sales productivity more than we do in this dreadful economy. For decades, businesses have embraced productivity and cost controls in operational functions like manufacturing and distribution; programs like Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma and LEAN are thriving all over the map. Except in the sales department. We suggest that sales organizations can benefit dramatically from adopting some basic principles of productivity management, simple business techniques that lower costs, improve customer profitability and retention, and reduce sales-person turnover. This article explores the eight key practices that contribute to productivity. If the practice is in place in your usiness, it will contribute to productivity. But if it is not, it will actually inhibit productivity and drive up costs.
5 Ways to Grow Your Sales Team
I have wondered for years if there are constants in sales management. Are there principles that would help me help others in the area of management? I realized, first and foremost, that there are two basic types of leaders: bottom line managers and people managers.
The Power of Good Measures
Most organizations have a TQM (Total Quality Management) Program. It is the quality of the measures in this effort that will determine the success or failure of it. Here is a short paper I wrote on some interesting aspects of measures.
Concepts of TQM and Lean
I have lived and worked through many of the phases of the Quality Revolution and have personally studied with many of the legendary Quality Gurus, like Deming, Juran, and Joiner. Often the articles and books on TQM (Total Quality Management) portray the world as an ideal place and describe theories in ways that are neat and tidy. The real world is a messier place, and the theories need to be integrated in that environment so they will actually work.

Three Essentials of any Change Management Model
Three key principles to any change management model.
ENTERPRISE LEVEL PERFORMANCE: Creating a Self Management Culture
Want to get the job done? Give it to a self manager. The ROI of a Self Management is huge in both financial and human terms. The numbers are invariable double digits plus, however equally important is the value of working together with self motivated, committed colleagues who do what they say they'll do. Here's how to create an enterprise level Self Management Culture one step at a time by instilling core principles of Self Management as part of day-to-day practice.
Leadership Theories Pros and Cons
Leadership Theories Pros and Cons - Leadership in management theory, different types of thought developed over time with their own lines. Each theory effectively an organization provides a model of steering. The article's lead - and the principles discussed pros and cons of a comparison between people in business management implements. The Business Leadership contains the three basic principles. There are many more specific theory is that these three people, which led to a coherent whole and have developed the basic principles of management are present in the mixture.
Competencies: The Core of Human Resource Management
Competency-based human resource management is currently all the rage. Unfortunately, it also has all the dangers of being relegated to the place of Management by Objective (MBO), Total Quality Management (TQM), and other similar programs that also really worked, but were so little understood and so poorly implemented by most that they are now considered unacceptable programs.

How Total is Your Quality Management?
Many well intentioned "Total Quality Management" improvement efforts aren't working. In their international study of Total Quality Management practices, the Conference Board of Canada found one study which showed that "seven out of ten North American companies fail in their attempt to execute a total quality strategy".
Seven Essential Principles for Managing Power and Politics
There are seven essential principles for managing power and politics in organizations. They are based on the philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli, the classic theorist in the field. Not even skilled and relatively sophisticated people can succeed in management -- and be seen as leaders -- without internalizing these principles, although they may have minor short-term successes. In the long run, they will be undermined because they can't build and keep alliances, protect themselves from the grapevine or influence top management.
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