Understanding People Behavior at Work

Get to know one of Thomas International Assessments in this Live Information Session!

The Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) provides an accurate insight into how people behave at work. Here are some of the features:

8 Minute Assessment

In just 8 minutes, Thomas' behavioural test provides an accurate insight into how people behave at work, allowing you to maximise your learning and development budget, gain greater certainty when recruiting, and understand how to avoid staff turnover.

Detailed Profile

Thomas behaviour tests provide you with an initial profile detailing a person’s strengths and limitations, their communication style, their value to the business, what motivates them, their basic fears and how they behave under pressure.

Deep Insight

Once the Behaviour assessment has been completed, you have instant access to business outcome focussed content that enables you to match people to jobs, sift CVs, manage, coach, develop, onboard and train your people.

 Assessment Information 

• Assessment type: Behavioural profile
• Format: 24 questions
• Time to complete: 8 minutes
• Training required: None

Validation:

Registered with the British Psychological Society and audited against technical criteria established by the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations

 Background & Theory 

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dr. Thomas Hendrickson developed William Moulton Marston’s DISC theory to produce the Thomas Personal Profile Analysis (PPA) for the work place.

Marston’s original theory stated that actions based upon emotions are an individual’s biosocial response to supportive or hostile social environments. These actions determine how the individual interacts with the environment.

It was theorised that the way in which the individual interacts with the environment takes four basic directions: tendencies to dominate, influence, submit and comply. Marston published his book ‘Emotions of Normal People’ in 1928, which described his theory of human consciousness in comprehensive detail.

The PPA, also known as the Thomas Behaviour assessment, determines whether individuals see themselves as responding to workplace situations that they perceive to be favourable or challenging, and reveals whether their response patterns are active or passive; thus classifying the individual’s behavioural preferences in terms of four domains: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance.

Learn more about the PPA Tool during the session. 

Note: As this is an information session for a product, certificates will not be issued.