Orpheus ®

Provides a measure of work-based personality

Author/s:

John Rust, 1996

Administration:

25 minutes, On Screen

Qualification code:

OC1

Scoring:

Software Scored or Bureau Service

Description:

Orpheus is a work-based measure of personality, developed entirely in the UK. Using it will provide you with a comprehensive measure of a candidate's personality, assessing traits that will contribute to an individual's performance at work.

An Orpheus report will answer the most important questions about both potential and current employees:

• How will potential employees integrate into the team?
• How do they cope in stressful and demanding environments?
• Can they think for themselves?
• Will they really FIT into your organisation?

Orpheus may also help to increase your retention of staff by helping to increase an individual's fit to the role and by choosing people who will understand and respect your organisation's values.

Orpheus is based on the well-established 'Big Five' model, currently recognised as the most stable and well-defined structure of personality.

Specifically, Orpheus provides measures along the following dimensions:

• Fellowship
• Authority
• Conformity
• Emotion
• Detail.

The measures provided by Orpheus have been standardised on a wide-ranging, UK working population and add value to the processes of selection, team-building and personal development.

In addition to the 'Big Five' scales, Orpheus also provides an assessment of individual strengths and styles along the following dimensions:

• Proficiency
• Work-orientation
• Patience
• Fair-mindedness
• Disclosure
• Loyalty
• Initiative.

Orpheus also identifies irregular response patterns, such as 'answering in a socially desirable way' or 'faking good'. This helps to ensure a more accurate interpretation of scores.

Administration and Scoring

Estrado is the computer based testing platform which allows you to administer, score and generate reports for Orpheus. It is now easy to incorporate ability measures with this personality measure. Estrado is compatible up to and including Windows XP Service Pack 2.

Bureau Service

We are pleased to offer a bureau service for this product, please contact Sue Overy for details. Orpheus^® is also available online. For more information please email talentresources@pearson.com.

Narrative Reports

In addition to a profile across the 12 dimensions and the provision of 4 indicator scores, a full narrative report is available whether Orpheus is administered by paper-and-pencil or computer. This option provides automatic interpretation of scale scores and interactions. Orpheus narratives can be generated by the user on our new Estrado software. Alternatively a bureau service is provided by which Pearson Assessment scores completed questionnaires and generates both profiles and narrative reports as requested.