Hogan Development Survey - SCALES AND INTERPRETATIONS

The Hogan Development Survey (HDS) is comprised of 11 scales measuring behavioral tendencies that impede success. The scales are interpreted in terms of risk-higher scores indicate greater potential for problems on the job. The following are the 11 scales with a brief description of the tendencies associated with higher scores.

• Excitable - moody, easily annoyed, hard to please, and emotionally volatile
  • Result: lack persistence
• Skeptical - distrustful, cynical, sensitive to criticism, and focused on the negative
  • Result: lack trust
• Cautious - unassertive, resistant to change, risk-averse, and slow to make decisions
  • Result: resistant to change
• Reserved - aloof, indifferent to the feelings of others, and uncommunicative
  • Result: poor communicator
• Leisurely - overtly cooperative, but privately irritable, stubborn, and uncooperative
  • Result: stubborn and uncooperative
• Bold - overly self-confident, arrogant, with inflated feelings of self-worth
  • Result: unable to admit mistakes
• Mischievous - charming, risk-taking, limit-testing and excitement-seeking
  • Result: trouble maintaining commitments
• Colorful - dramatic, attention-seeking, interruptive, and poor listening skills
  • Result: preoccupied with being noticed
• Imaginative - creative, but thinking and acting in unusual or eccentric ways
  • Result: creative but lacking judgment
• Diligent - perfectionistic, hard to please, and micromanaging
  • Result: disempower staff
• Dutiful - eager to please and reluctant to act independently or against popular opinion
  • Result: pleasant but won't speak up