Page Work Behavior Inventory

Audience and Use

The Page Work Behavior Inventory (PWBI) is a state-of-the-art tool that assesses the work styles of job applicants and employees.  It gives you the capability to objectively assess people and match them to jobs. It is used for all types of employees, including:

• Executives
• Managers
• Professionals & Administrative Staff
• Administrative Support 
• Labor & Production Staff

Uses

The PWBI helps address important issues related to:

• Employee Selection
• Leadership Development
• Personal Development & Coaching
• Team Building & Team Effectiveness
• Optimizing Human Potential & Effectiveness

Time Requirements and Languages

The PWBI requires about 35 minutes to complete and may be completed in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Chinese, and Thai.

Relevant to Work Settings

The PWBI has these key features of relevance to work settings:

• Job Relevant—it has been specifically designed for work settings; all items and scales are relevant to work.
• Wide range of jobs—it is appropriate for entry-level to senior executive individuals in any work setting.
• Easy to complete—respondents indicate the extent to which behaviors are descriptive of themselves on a 5-point scale.
• Highly sophisticated measures of Response Distortion—it identifies whether individuals are providing honest and accurate self descriptions.
• Job-Relevant Norms—scores are in terms of percentile standing among a broad, international sample of workers.

What are the Benefits?

Validation studies have proven the effectiveness of the PWBI:

• Measures Work Behaviors of applicants and employees in a reliable manner.
• Optimizes the fit between employees and jobs.
• Reduces cost of assessing applicants and employees.
• Helps assure optimal quality, productivity and effectiveness of the workforce.

 Key Features

 The PWBI has these key features:

• Reliable—PWBI scales have markedly higher reliabilities than typically found in personality tests (median reliability of .85 vs. a median of .75 for personality tests).
• Valid & Legally Defensible—the PWBI scales have been shown to be valid for measuring their underlying constructs.
• Big Five—its scales are grouped according to research evidence on the “Big Five” personality factors.
• Linkage to O*NET Work Styles—it assesses the Work Styles that the U.S. Department of Labor has defined as important dimensions of job effectiveness in the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) system.
• Emotional Intelligence—it provides a single, overall score of “Emotional Intelligence,” which Daniel Goleman (1998) indicates is related to success at work.
• Companion Competency Requirements Analysis—an optional O*NET-based competency requirements questionnaire helps identify a job’s requirements for work styles.
• Easy-to-Interpret Narrative Report—an easy-to-read narrative report is provided which may be self-interpreted by respondents.
• Internet or paper-and-pencil—administration and scoring.