SMPQ The Selby & Mills Personality Questionnaire (SMPQ) is a European broad-spectrum on-line personal assessment questionnaire. It conforms to the highest current standards in professional psychology. It produces a unique and comprehensive range of information on work behaviour: |
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Skills
Customer/Social Skills
A description of the extent to which the person is
alert to social conventions and interacts with others on an honest basis
with sensitivity for the other person's perspective and an awareness of
the requirements of the business relationship.
Professional Skills
A description of the extent of their expert orientation,
their openness to different points of view and the way in which they keep
up to date in their chosen field and share their knowledge and understanding.
Business/Quality Management Skills
A summary of the way in which the person manages business
issues and plans quality into their work, taking into account possible
threats to progress.
People Management Skills
This is an evaluation of the preferred management
style of the individual and the way in which they absorb information in
order to reach decisions.
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| These sections are assessed through the completion
of the initial 60 items, which are each responded to twice: once to indicate
how familiar colleagues would describe the person and a second time to indicate
how the person would 'ideally' themselves like to be (their aspirations).
The contrast between the two provides an indication of the ease and comfort with which the person will fulfil the expectations which others have of them without sacrificing their own priorities. In addition, the correlation between the two responses for each question is an indication of the candidate's acceptance of how they are. There is considerable evidence that those who
are at odds with themselves, or completely content with themselves are
far less effective at work and in life generally than those who are aspiring
to improve and grow their performance. |
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Type
The second major assessment component of the SMPQ is that it contains a measure of Psychological Type, consistent with that developed by Sigmund Freud and realised in a range of questionnaires, the best known of which is the MBTI. This provides an indication of the person's preferred work, management and decision making style. The use of Type is very well understood in the workplace, and this measure provides it in a normative form so that it may be used both for selection, development and counselling purposes. |
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Competencies
The SMPQ has a unique competency structure. It provides a total of 55 competencies, of which 40 are directly work related, which cover the major models currently in use in professional psychology. This is organised at 3 levels as follows: Level 1 - The Big 5 Personality DimensionsThese are often referred to as the OCEAN model of
personality, because of the acronym for the names of the 5 dimensions.
Level 2 - Mental State: Emotional Intelligence
The Big 5 factors each branch to produce 2 further
factors which 10 make up an overall indication of mental state.
Level 3 - Work Competencies
The 10 indicators of mental state finally branch to
provide 40 work competencies which cover the best known areas of understanding
sought by employers. |
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| Target Audience
The SMPQ is designed for any Level B test user, whether intermediate, intermediate plus or fully certificated. The competency report components may be utilised by anyone qualified at BPS Level A or who is registered with a recognised test publisher for the use of any ability questionnaire. |
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| Reporting
The user may select those report components from within the range available according to their level of qualification:- |
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| which are relevant to the use to which the report is being put. In addition a Candidate version of these report components is available for feedback purposes. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||