Personality assessments applied to restructures save HR big money on miss-promotions
The research team of Professor Alexey Gusev from the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University and Nemesysco—a voice analytics technologies company—have worked collaboratively on research into the applications of voice analytics since early 2017. This joint research is being led by Professor Gusev with the support of F2F Group—a behaviour research and consulting firm in Russia. Nemesysco and the researchers at Moscow State University have recently completed research on using voice analytics for developing personality assessments for human resource purposes. For this research project, Professor Gusev and his research team tested anonymous subjects' recorded voice files using Nemesysco’s Layered Voice Analytics (LVA™) technology. As an outcome of this analysis of the emotions detected and measured by the LVA technology, the researchers established quantifiable methods for measuring the aptitude qualities and personal competencies of job candidates and employees being considered for promotions, including stress, motivation, teamwork, leadership capabilities and more.
“We estimate that this industrial company saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars in misapplied salaries, benefits and associated operational costs.”
Natalie Zaharova, CEO, F2F Group
Natalie Zaharova, CEO, F2F Group, said, “We estimate that this industrial company saved several hundreds of thousands of dollars in misapplied salaries, benefits and associated operational costs by acting on the recommendations of our research and offering promotions to only the matched candidates. The scientific findings of Professor Gusеv and his research team were fully supported by the executive management team and used for the firm’s final decision making together with its common sense and human discretion.”
Nemesysco’s LVA technology is designed to reveal the genuine emotional reactions of a person by detecting and measuring uncontrolled psychophysiological changes to a person’s voice during open conversations. The technology is indifferent to language or the content of speech.
Professor Alexey Gusev, Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nemesysco reports that the testing methods that it developed together with the researchers at Moscow State University and F2F Group were recently applied to the corporate restructuring project of a large industrial company in Russia. The voices of just under 300 executives and senior-level managers who were being considered for promotions were analysed during discussions with the company’s HR team and their verbal responses to a dedicated questionnaire prepared by an external organizational consultant. The personality assessments output by the LVA technology indicated that the characteristics and competencies of approximately 28% of the candidates that were being evaluated for promotions were not suitable for their new positions and would have had a difficult time coping with their new duties.
Amir Liberman, CEO, Nemesysco noted, “This ground-breaking research demonstrates for the first time what can be achieved when the genuine personality and true qualities of candidates and employees are assessed not based on what they say or think about themselves but based on their emotional reactions to past situations and expected future events. Our LVA technology serves as a mirror of truth and allows managers at all levels of an organization to take a better and more informed decision about the team they want to build.”
The upcoming joint research projects planned by Nemesysco and the research team of Professor Gusev include a study on the emotional state of employees during prolonged exposure to stress and the development of a diagnostic tool for measuring professional burnout.
Paul Arkwright
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