Re-Engineering Jobs in a Small Company

A small company gave the HermanCheckStart assessment to all of their existing employees in order to understand how they could be more effective in their jobs. When the owner and the managers read the HermanCheckStart reports, it became clear that several positions had mutually conflicting behavioral requirements. One job demanded strict compliance with established policies and procedures, and at the same time, required a high degree of adaptability to deal with sudden changes. HermanCheckStart made it clear that these two extreme characteristics were on opposite ends of the same scale of personality traits, and therefore could not be found in the same individual. Through a process of job analysis using the HermanCheckStart data, such positions were redesigned to take advantage of the talents of the existing employees. By rethinking job requirements, managers were also able to configure positions that could more easily be filled, and in many cases, for less money. Once these changes were in effect, overall performance increased while turnover decreased. This was accomplished internally without the expense of outside consultants because of the clarity of the HermanCheckStart reports.