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As leaders in the field of psychometrics in the workplace, SHL prepares papers and submits material to industry publications. The following papers are available for download (site registration required).

In addition, review our client success stories.

 

10 Aug 06
Eugene Burke
The practice of assessment is being influenced by technology in the design of assessments and in their delivery, particularly in the use of the Internet as a means of administering unsupervised assessments.  How do organisations safeguard the integrity of objective assessments?  How do organisations deal with the threats presented by those who pirate online assessment content and who engage in cheating?

30 Jun 06
SHL Business Issues Series
The identification and assessment of competencies in the workforce has become one of the key components in successful person/job matching and accounts for the plethora of new competency models emerging with within the corporate environment.

13 Mar 06
James Bywater & Tamsin Martin
Selection & Development Review, Volume 22 No.1, 2006

09 Dec 05
SHL Business Issues Series
This paper presents common myths of graduate recruitment and suggests innovative ways to improve your recruitment program.

24 Nov 05
SHL Business Issues Series
Does your company champion the benefits of  'teamwork', yet has few (if any) practical ways to encourage team development?

19 Oct 05
SHL Business Issues Series
Organisations today are driving ever harder to demonstrate value. Business cases are scrutinised and go-to-market plans, product strategies and sales channels are investigated in detail to ensure that organisations have managed the risk in their investment of time and money, and that they can measure a return on the investments they make.

12 Oct 05
SHL Business Issues Series
The paper addresses what is the best way of assessing a candidate’s current skills, future potential and personality drivers that is far, fast, objective and cost efficient.

01 Sep 05
SHL Business Issues Series
The focus of this article is; “What is the financial return to organisations from assessing personality?”

01 Feb 05
Bywater, J. Green, V. (2005) - Selection & Development Review Vol. 20 No.6 BPS Leicester

This paper explores the technical properties of a short sifting questionnaire when used on line.   It shows that such tools can predict the people who are both good at the tasks in the job, and are also good "organisational citizens" (contextual performance).

01 Apr 04
Assessment in Organisations, Bartram, D

The article considers current practice and merging trends in assessment in organisations. Published in 'Applied Psychology: An International Review', volume 53, issue 2, April 2004. To obtain a copy of this article, please contact Ilke.Inceoglu@shlgroup.com.

01 Nov 02
Prof Dave Bartram

This White Paper elaborates on the four leadership functions and shows the Great 8 Competency Factors of the SHL Competency Framework (Kurz and Bartram 2002) combine in pairs and link to these functions. It presents an approach to leadership that builds on the best current research and thinking in this area.