Work Styles Questionnaire
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Test Name: | Work Styles Questionnaire | ||||||||||||||||||||
Author of Original Test: | D. Hawkey & T. Borkowski | ||||||||||||||||||||
Local test distributor / publisher: | SHL Group Ltd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Current Review: | 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Date of Publication of Current Review / Edition: | 02 Mar 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Type of Test: | Personality - Trait | ||||||||||||||||||||
Main Area of Use: | Work and Occupational | ||||||||||||||||||||
Constructs Measured: | Relationships with people; Thinking Style; Feelings; Energies; Compliance | ||||||||||||||||||||
Administration Mode: | Supervised Group administration | ||||||||||||||||||||
Response Mode: | Paper and pencil Computerised On-line | ||||||||||||||||||||
General Description of Test: | The Work Styles Questionnaire (WSQ) is an individual, self-report questionnaire, which is occupationally oriented and which measures personality. It is aimed at selection and development for production and manufacturing employees (manual and operative staff) and is based around job analyses of production and manufacturing roles in a variety of different organisations and industry sectors.
The WSQ is one of a suite of assessment instruments published and distributed by SHL. The 1999 edition is a substantial revision to the first version of the WSQ, which was published in 1988. The design of the instrument is based on a work styles competency framework developed by SHL. The new WSQ has a similar structure to the original but with a redefinition of some scales, a collapsing together of overlapping scales, and two new scales. The current version reflects, more distinctly, particular features of the manufacturing and production sector. The items of the scales clearly reflect these aims. The aim of the WSQ is to assess the behaviours associated with successful job performance in manufacturing and production environments. It assesses personality, or behavioural style or preferences, in five main areas: Relationships with People; Thinking Style; Feelings; Energies; and Compliance. Users familiar with SHLs Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) will recognise this structure and, like the OPQ, the WSQ can be used for both selection and development purposes. Within each of the five areas are a number of scales. These are shown below:
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