Giotto

A personality measure of the "fit" to role, derailers and integrity of potential and current employees

Author/s:

John Rust, 1997

Administration:

15 minutes, Paper & Pencil or On Screen

Qualification code:

OC1

Scoring:

Software Scored or Bureau Service

Description:

Giotto represents one of the first measures of personal integrity to be entirely developed in the UK.

The measure is particularly suited for use pre-interview, indicating particular aspects of a candidate's work-based behaviour and attitudes which may benefit from further probing during the selection process.

Giotto recognises the potential difficulties inherent in the accurate measurement of integrity and is therefore presented as an ipsative questionnaire. This helps to avoid the contaminating effects of a candidate lying or faking.

Giotto also makes use of state-of-the-art neural network techniques to unravel the complex nature of personal integrity, as it relates to the workplace. Taken together, these factors help to provide a more accurate and reliable measure of a candidate's strengths and weaknesses, across a total of 7 dimensions.

High scores on these dimensions may provide protection against:

• Carelessness, accident proneness and mindlessness
• Lack of commitment, absenteeism and tardiness
• Proneness to violence, hostility and intimidation
• Disciplinary problems, subversion and intolerance
• Disrespect for senior managers, overbearing behaviour and arrogance
• Theft of company property, wasteful use of resources and failure to share
• Inability to cope with change, lack of self-confidence and anxiety.

Scores on these 7 dimensions can then be matched to the requirements of a particular job. Although all 7 dimensions have general applicability, each post will have particular requirements which identify certain patterns of scores as being salient to effective job performance.

Scoring and narrative reports

This measure of integrity can now be incorporated with more general ability measures. Since the Estrado computer based testing platform is designed in a modular fashion, you can easily add verbal reasoning (Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal UK) and numerical reasoning (Rust Advanced Numerical Reasoning Appraisal).

Estrado software automatically scores the questionnaire and outputs a candidate profile across 7 dimensions and a full narrative report, if this is requested. Giotto profiles and narratives can be generated by using our Estrado software. 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 email Sue.Overy@pearson.com for details. Giotto^®  is also available online. For more information please email talentresources@pearson.com.