[FAQ's]
How does the
person complete the Digital Couch?
What REPORTS are available?
What is included in the REPORT?
Are Values part of the Personality?
Self-report tests have Biases,
are they covered?
Is the MEP different from other
test Results?
Does the MEP offer any additional
advantages?
Is there anything the MEP doesn't
do?
The candidate accesses the Digital Couch from the Management by Design Website and signs on using a password. Questions are answered on an 8-point scale (Usually takes 50 – 70 minutes). When finished, Management by Design is notified by email, downloads their scores and prepares the required reports that are usually sent within 1-2 business days.
Back to Top What REPORTS are available?
The Management Evaluation Profile (MEP) is the most comprehensive REPORT and covers 40 Business Dimensions in five areas giving both data and an integrated narrative report. Dynamics are available at the end of each section. In addition, TOP LINES gives the end-user guidance in asking key interview questions. The Virtual Psychologists provide another way to use data.
Back to Top What is included in the REPORT?
The Management Evaluation Profile covers 40 Business Dimensions in 5 categories:
I. Problem Solving Style (10), II. Personality (10), III. Social & Communication (8), IV. Management & Organization (10) and V. Values (2) are composed of specific Business Dimensions with Scores based on 100%
Back to Top Are Values part of the Personality?
Not really, but they can have an impact on how the personality comes across. For instance, a person could be psychologically flexible (e.g., adjusts well to different people) but has a “rigid value system” (e.g., absolutist) so he/she may look rigid on some occasions (actually you are seeing their value system). The Digital Couch discovers this distinction and reports it.
Back to Top Self-report tests have Biases, are they covered?
Yes. The Management Evaluation Profile (MEP) covers 9 major sources of Bias, which let the end-user understand how the candidate approached the Digital Couch. The Biases are also turned into personality dimensions (e.g., Socially Covert, Ideal Employee), which give additional information about the test-taker’s personality
Back to Top Is the MEP different from other test Results?
You bet it is. Almost all reports list the scores and some even provide bar charts or graphics (The MEP does not graph scores). But the narrative part is just one area where the Digital Couch is more powerful than most other tests. Most tests discuss variables individually (e.g., meaning of high, low or medium scores) and give significant “general boilerplate.” The Digital Couch goes way beyond this by using algorithms that “understand interactions among scores.” For example it knows that Dominance and Warmth interact to create different “overt behaviors.” Hence, rather than just discussing individual scores, it draws conclusions about the relationships among Traits and between dynamics and discusses what are called; second order issues.
Back to Top Does the MEP offer any additional advantages?
There sure are. All Professional Tests on the market (e.g., NEO PI-R©, CPI© and 16-PF©) were created by academic psychologists who study the personality. They were not concerned about WHY (Dynamics) people do things but only what they do or what they look like (e.g., Extraverted). Psychologists who practice in the real world also need to know WHY people do things and they know that Dynamics are a better predictor of actual behavior. The Digital Couch is the only instrument that uncovers the WHY and in the MEP Report, it not only states the probable behavior (like other tests) but makes intelligent guesses about WHY a person exhibits those behaviors and then explains the reasons in plain English!
Back to Top Is there anything the MEP doesn't do?
Yes. It cannot cover the specifics of a person’s life or career but this is usually the material uncovered in the Human Resources interview. The whole point of the Digital Couch is that it reduces the need to hire a professional psychologist to uncover the complex psychological data. Then it gives it "BACK to YOU" in a more user friendly fashion.
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