BIP: Business-Focused
Inventory of Personality
PURPOSE
Ideally
suited for differentiating the effectiveness of those
who work at board and senior executive levels, BIP combines
the assessment of three key sources of motivation with
assessment of behavioural style.
AUTHOR
Hossiep, R & Paschen, M.
DESCRIPTION
The
BIP combines an assessment of both work style and motivation
and was originally developed in Germany over ten years
ago following research into personality at work and
with input from HR professionals. The UK standardisation
was carried out in 2007 under the direction of Professor
John Rust. The result is a practical, work-based questionnaire
that is valuable for use at senior managerial levels.
The
self-reprot questionnaire (Form S) is complemented by
a version of the questionnaire that can be completed
by others (Form O). This provides a useful insight into
the impact of behaviour on other people and, as such,
makes for a rich source of information in a development
setting.
The questionnaire includes fourteen scales arranged
into four conceptual domains:
Occupational Orientation – assessing work-specific
motivation, this domain considers what motivates respondents
in planning and shaping their career path and what they
value in a job. There are three scales:
Emotional Stability (ES) - Degree to
which emotional reactions are balanced and not volatile;
capacity to recover from defeat and failure; capacity
to control one’s own emotional reactions.
Working under Pressure (WP) - Confidence
in one’s ability to be highly resilient and robust;
readiness to take on heavy work loads.
Self-Confidence (SC) - Emotional independence
from the judgment of others; self-motivation; confidence
in one’s own capacity and expected performance.
In
addition, the BIP has an ‘Impression Management’ scale
which assesses an aspect of the test-taker’s approach
to the questionnaire and enables the user to obtain,
to some extent, the extent to which respondents are
emphasising more or less positive aspects of themselves.
The supplementary Observer-Rated Version (Form O) is
a short 42 item questionnaire which can be used by observers
to rate the test-taker on the 14 dimensions of the BIP.
For the sake of time efficiency, in Form O, each BIP
dimension is addressed with just three items. Form O
has not been normed as a metric in its own right. It
is exclusively a reference or support tool which provides
some useful information about divergence between self-image
and public image which might be discussed in coaching
conversations or in team development contexts.
RELIABILITY
Internal Consistency reliability: (N=581)
The obtained values for primary scales range from .67
to .87 and of the 14 scales, 10 are at .80 or above;
3 are between .70 and .80; 1 is at .67.
Test-Retest Reliability: (N= 83 Interval = one month).
The obtained values for test retest reliability range
between .69 and .90 and of the 14 scales, 12 exceed
.80 with several approaching .90.
VALIDITY
Construct validity: The relationships between performance
on BIP and performance on three other self-report personality
tests (16PF, NEO FFI and EPI) are presented in the manual.
Criterion related: Validity data has been collected
against observer ratings, income (corrected for age),
hierarchical position (corrected for age), subjective
estimation of career success and job satisfaction.
Social
Validity: Systematic feedback on users experience of
completing the BIP has been collected (N=1573).
Correlations with Impression Management and Acquiescence
are also presented in the manual.
Equivalence with other language editions was ensured
through the carrying out of focus groups, cognitive
interviews etc in the course of the UK standardisation.
NORMS
UK working population:
N=581
45.1% males / 54.9% females
Mean age: 36.2 years (sd=10.3)
Age range: 19-65 years
Range of roles: Police; Managerial; Finance; Engineering
& IT; Psychologists; HR staff; Sales & Marketing;
Counsellors; Local Authority staff; Administration staff;
Other
DURATION
Form S (Self-rated): Untimed (40 minutes)
Form O (Observer-rated):
Untimed (10-15 minutes)
To
place an order - please phone 0118 9482322 or email
info@cranbrooksolutions.co.uk
| TEST MATERIALS |
£
|
| BIP
Starter Set (includes 1 Manual, 5 Item Booklets
Self Rated (Form S), 10 Item Booklets Observer
Rated (Form O), 5 Profile Sheets Self Rated (Form
S), 10 Profile Sheets Observer rated (Form O),
5 Summary Score Sheets Self rated (Form S), 1
Self Rated Scoring Key Acetates, 5 Self Rated
Test Taker Guides (Form S), 10 Observer Rated
Test taker Guides (Form O) |
294.00
|
| BIP Manual |
84.00
|
| Item Booklet (Self Rated) x10 |
38.00
|
| Item Booklet (Observer Rated x10 |
24.00
|
| Profile Sheet (Self Rated)
x25 |
40.00
|
Summary
Score Sheet x25 |
40.00
|
| Scoring Keys (Acetates) |
28.00
|
Test
Taker Guide (Self Rated/Form S) x10 |
62.00
|
| Test Taker Guide (Observer Rated/Form
O) x10 |
62.00
|
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| BIP
online/offline |
Cost per test |
| BIP Online 1 Test |
58.00
|
| BIP Full Bureau
Service provides online administration, scoring,
and report, excludes cost of test |
48.00
|
| BIP Online 2-9 Tests |
48.00
|
| BIP Online 10-19 Tests |
46.00
|
| BIP Online 20-49 Tests |
42.00
|
| BIP Online 50-99 Tests |
38.00
|
| BIP Online 100+ Tests |
36.00
|
| BIP Offline 1 Test |
29.00
|
| BIP Offline 2-9 Tests |
24.00
|
| BIP Offline 10-19 Tests |
23.00
|
| BIP Offline 20-49 Tests |
21.00
|
| BIP Offline 50-99 Tests |
19.00
|
| BIP Offline 100+ Tests |
18.00
|
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