Psychometric Testing & Climate Survyes

Psychometric testing is recognized as a vital component in improving organizational effectiveness through

the development of individual, interpersonal and team competencies.

Organizations use psychological tests as part of the selection process-recruitment, redundancy,

promotion, and for developmental purposes-career guidance and counseling, personal or team
development, succession planning. To understand better the factors that tend to predict best performers,
testing can be used to identify common qualities amongst successful employees in a job category, so that
those qualities can be looked at and trained for.

Properly developed psychometric tests and questionnaires, when used by competent and qualified
individuals, lead to judgments that are likely to be more valid than judgments made by other means.

CLASSIFICATION OF PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS

The psychometric tests are classified in to the following areas:

Ability tests
Personality Inventories
Interest Inventories
Tests of Motivation and Attitude
Projective Techniques (TAT)
Organisation Climate Survey, Employee Satisfaction/Engagement Survey etc

PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS DEVELOPED IN-HOUSE BY TVRLS

TVRLS have developed a range of psychometric tests that can be used for recruitment, placement,
retention, training and development. These tests have been designed after the research of many years.

These psychometric tests are available for all sectors of the industry, and for Senior and Top Level
managers, Middle Management, Young Managers, School Principals, NGOs, Teachers, Sales Executives
etc.

The following Questionnaires/Scales have been designed by TVRLS over the years:

Personal Effectiveness Scale

PE: This is an 80 item questionnaire having items on 4 personal effectiveness dimensions (Exploratory
orientation, Self disclosure, openness to feedback and Sensitivity etc.). This test measures the extent to
which a person is inclined on various parameters of personal effectiveness. It helps an individual to know
more about him/herself, and to build upon the weak areas.

Work Values Scale

WV: This is a 72 item questionnaire that contains items related to work. It measures the relative intensity
of nine work values and the relative importance of expected work outcomes for the individual.

Interpersonal Trust (My Beliefs Questionnaire)

MBQ: This questionnaire contains 70 items that assesses and individual’s degree of trust and well as the
tendency to show himself/herself to be trust worthy. It gives an indication of your attitude to a variety of
situations and other people, and the score gives a measure of how strong a person is on interpersonal
trust and trustworthiness.

Motivational Profiles Inventory

MP: This is a simple scale with 35 items measuring the relative intensity of seven motives such as
achievement, affiliation, control, dependency etc. It gives an indication of the more preferred motive and
the less preferred motive in an individual.

Internal External Locus Of Control Questionnair

IELOC-This is a 54 item scale that measures that extent to which an individual’s thoughts, opinions,
beliefs are external oriented or internal oriented. It gives an insight into ourselves, and this scale has
been constructed with is intention of measuring the degree of internality or externality of the test taker.

TVRLS has successfully completed Certificate Program in Psychometric Testing for a batch of 20
participants in 2006. In addition to this TVRLS has organised more than 6 open workshops on
Psychometric Testing at various locations covering over 150 HR specialists and Trainers.

For more details on Workshops and Certificate Programs in Psychometric Testing contact TVRLS Office.

TVRLS also administers the test designed by us for Individuals and organisations (Online as well as
Paper-Pencil). Anyone interested in administering these tools can get in touch with the TVRLS office.