In connection with the standardization of work and the development of the influence of psychology and psychiatry, many enterprises introduce into their practice a psychological examination of most groups of people who, for one reason or another, interact with society: job candidates, service workers, teachers, schoolchildren. The situation is associated with more frequent cases of industrial conflicts and even disasters associated with an unfavorable psychological background for an employee or team as a whole. HR specialists have developed a multifaceted psychophysiological examination, borrowed from the experience of clinicians, psychiatrists and counseling psychologists. In the foreseeable future, such a program promises many research prospects and improved work of certain services.
Practice of techniques in HR. Is it scary?
In most cases, methods for psychodiagnostics are offered to respondents when applying for a job that requires certain psychological parameters: stress resistance, moral normativity, communication skills. The desire of the employer to get an employee "he althy, beautiful, sociable, without bad habits" creates a number of obstacles in the wayunemployed to his position.
However, the expectations of merchants interested in their own profits are certainly justified and create the necessary level of competition. As a rule, responsible persons and senior employees are offered to undergo a psychophysiological examination. The need for this procedure is due to the need to quickly find out what potential lies in the future employee, and “is the game worth the candle.”
In addition, many techniques help to identify the motivation of employees to work and contribute to the improvement of the enterprise management system. Managers who do not stint on a psychologist-coach or an experienced personnel officer rarely face the problem of staff leaving or taking on a position of employees who are not able to fulfill their job responsibilities.
Psychophysiological examination: Ministry of Internal Affairs, law enforcement agencies and the army
Great attention is paid to testing in law enforcement agencies that have a connection with the deviant and criminal contingent of people. In this case, a full examination is carried out not only when applying for a job, but also with a certain frequency during the period of adaptation and further service. Particular attention is paid to the employees of the Federal Drug Control Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These structures automatically issue "red cards" to applicants who have even minor psychological deviations, or who have de alt with a narcologist or psychiatrist.
In this case, the management needs not only a psychophysiological examination, but also full-fledged anthropometric data. KnownThe proverb “A he althy mind in a he althy body” in the interpretation of HR specialists in the case of hiring a new employee sounds like “Both the body and the psyche must be ready for stress.” And the pressures are often enormous. That is why personnel officers use psychophysiological examination: tests and projective methods to identify the necessary psychometric parameters.
Luscher color test
The vastness of its application is due to the speed of the study and a fairly accurate interpretation of the results. The subject is asked to arrange the colored cards in a row, based on personal preferences. At the beginning of the row is a card with the most pleasant color for the subject.
Following - colors that you like less (in descending order). As a result, the row should end with the least pleasant color for the subject.
Benefits: fast, easy to interpret, the ability to automate the process.
Disadvantages: Possibility of giving socially desirable responses. The technique cannot serve as a battery (main).
Picture test
It is a very effective, but rather time-consuming diagnostic method. A candidate for a position should complete a creative task related to the outline of an object or group of objects (“Non-existent animal”, “House, tree, person”). The psychologist evaluates the pressure on the pencil, the location of objects, the geometry of the drawing, the accentuation on certain features of the drawing (eyes, structure, plants, animal hair, etc.).
Benefits: very effective projective psychophysiological examination. In the hands of an experienced psychologist, it becomes a real "psychic microscope". With the help of the drawing, a very wide range of psychological parameters is determined. The subject cannot give a socially desirable answer, Disadvantages: the complexity of the process, the impossibility of automation using a computer.
Psychophysiological examination of intellectual abilities
The use of intelligence quotient (IQ) research is a rather controversial point in hiring. Psychologists note that respondents with high scores may be ineffective, while those with low scores may be highly effective. And vice versa. This means that methods for determining IQ cannot give a full answer to the question of professional suitability. Many merchants do not take this fact into account, introducing discrimination based on intellectual abilities into the personnel policy of the enterprise. From this, they, by the way, lose more than they gain. But it is still worth considering popular methods.
Eysenck test
The subject is asked to solve a number of problems in a certain period of time (depending on the version of the test). The data obtained by the psychologist are compared with the key, and the subject receives an assessment of his intellectual abilities. Most of the respondents have an intelligence in the range from 90 to 110.
Tests by D. Wexler, J. Raven are identical in obtaining results and processingEysenck test.
Benefits: Provides a picture of IQ in a relatively short time. The possibility of automating the technique.
Flaws: The validity of the aptitude test is questionable.
Summarizing the above, you should remember that tests should not be afraid. They reveal only a part of the data about our psychological characteristics. If the employer sees a valuable employee in the applicant, he will never refuse to provide the necessary place.
