Work Style Lens ™

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The Work Style Lens™ (WS-Lens) is an unproctored online personality assessment designed to measure 16 distinct work styles that directly influence job performance and professional success. Serving as an enhanced, updated version of the Workplace Personality Inventory – II, this 192-item untimed test takes approximately 35 minutes to complete.  The assessment is unique because its scales are tied directly to the US Department of Labor’s extensive O*NET occupational database. It evaluates baseline habits across four core themes—Relating to People, Dealing with Emotions, Approaching Work, and Thinking Styles—and features a fake-resistant “Unlikely Virtues” scale to flag candidates who try to over-inflate their scores.

The Work Style Lens ™ (WS-Lens) measures 16 work styles tied directly to the Department of Labor’s O*NET database of job description information.

It is an enhanced, updated version of the Workplace Personality Inventory – II.  Work styles can be thought of as an individual’s typical patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that contribute to and influence job success. Each scale includes detailed anchors describing high and low scorers, to provide enhanced interpretability.

Scales are grouped into four broad, intuitive themes Relating to People, Dealing with Emotions, Approaching Work, and Thinking Styles.

Also included is a fake-resistant “Unlikely Virtues” scale designed to identify individuals who provide overly favorable responses to questions.  It generates three separate reports – a Profile, a Development and a Profile + Development report.

What It’s Best Used For

• Pre-employment screening and selection: Evaluating external job applicants across any role or organizational level to predict how well their natural traits map onto job demands.
• Targeted workforce development and coaching: Leveraging specialized Development or Profile + Development reporting packages to build custom growth tracks for current staff.
• Benchmarking against specialized job norms: Aligning results against specific, validated benchmark groups, including accountants, customer service reps, managers, administrative support, IT staff, executives, and skilled trades.
• Evaluating emotional and stress boundaries: Measuring a worker’s capacity for self-control, stress tolerance, and adaptability when dealing with sudden operational changes.
• Auditing core work ethic and integrity: Assessing an individual’s intrinsic motivation and operational discipline across specific metrics like attention to detail, rule-following, persistence, and initiative.

Primary Use – Selection & Development
Assessment Type – Personality (Broad Band)
Job Level – All
Job Type – All
Number of Items – 192
Estimated Time – 35 minutes (untimed)
Administration Format – Unproctored

Assessment Scales Include:

Relating To People:

• Leadership Orientation
• Social Orientation
• Cooperation
• Concern For Others

Dealing With Emotions:

• Self Control
• Stress Tolerance
• Adaptability/Flexibility

Approaching Work:

• Dependability
• Attention To Detail
• Rule Following
• Achievement/Effort
• Persistence
• Initiative

Thinking Styles:

• Innovation
• Analytical Thinking
• Independence

The following norms are available:

• Accountants
• Administrative Support
• Consultants
• Customer Service Representative
• Engineers
• Executives & Directors
• General Labor
• Health Care Professionals
• Human Resource Professionals
• Information Technology Professionals
• Managers
• Principals & Superintendents (2016)
• Sales Representatives
• Skilled Trades
• Working Adults in the U.S.
• Poblacion general ES-LA
• População geral PT-BR

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