Saturday, December 22, 2007

KYKO Personality Profiling and Human Resource Management

Human Resource ManagementHRM can be defined as management of people. It includes all matters related to employment relationship and the dynamics that flow from it. The dynamics of HRM encompass an array of decisions, strategies, issues, principles, operations, functions, activities and methods related to the management of employees. The goals of HRM is to add value to the production and delivery of goods and services as well as improving the quality of life to ensure a continuous organizational success in an increasingly, dynamic and turbulent environment.
Personnel SelectionPersonnel selection can be defined as the process of identifying, selecting and hiring an employee to match a specific position. The cost of hiring an employee includes the remuneration package multiply by the number of probable years of service. Hiring potentially good employees benefits the organization tremendously and can result in increased productivity and quality. Its impact on the organization is realized when the employees take the organization to greater height of success through their years of service. Hiring potential problem employees escalates the cost of production and operations and can be very expensive. Organization has to look closely to the issues of hiring and retaining good employees to meet the demands of increased pressure on productivity and quality of products and services. In view of the importance of hiring, organization needs to find a valid psychometric instrument as a tool to select and hire the best from the market.


KYKO Personality Profile tool can be used to:

1. Hire potentially good and intelligent employees
2. Phase out problem potentially problem employees
3. Identify applicants who:
  • Are Prone to cheating
  • Break company rules and regulations
  • Insubordination
  • Sabotage
  • Malingering Others

4. Identify loyal employees
5. Identify the right person to fit into a particular position

  • COO – A dynamic, strong and positive personality
  • Managers dealing with people
  • Managers dealing with systems and things
  • Managers who wants to work independently on their own
  • Salespersons
  • Lower level staff who want to work independently
  • Secretaries
  • Clerical group
  • Operators

6. Sustain the retention of good employees using motivation to satisfy their need and make them happy and satisfied.

  • HE – Identify their Egocentric Traits and satisfy their ego needs
  • HSA – Identify the Self-Actualizing Traits and satisfy their growth needs
  • HSO – Identify their Sociocentric Traits and satisfy the love, social and affiliation needs
  • HSE – Identify their Security Traits and satisfy their needs to be safe

7. Identify their growth potentials in developing the following skills

  • Leadership Skills
  • Analytical Skills
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Creative Skills
  • Logical Skills
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Counseling and Guidance Skills
  • Administrative Skills
  • Communication Skills
  • Team Building Skills
  • Problem and Decision Making Skills

8. Boss and subordinate fit
9. Placement of employees

  • Important and challenging tasks
  • Simple and routine tasks
  • Dangerous tasks
  • Tasks dealing with people
  • Jobs dealing with things and processes
  • Creative and innovative tasks
  • Flexible tasks
  • Unimportant tasks
  • Urgent tasks

10. Self-Development

  • Identify the negative traits of the KYKO personality profile and develop a series of action plans to defreeze them

11. Change Management
12. Negotiation
13. Debt Collection
14. Conflict Management
15. Crisis Management
16. Career Personality Fit
17. Managing People

  • Customers to get repeated businesses
  • Bosses to get their support and assistance
  • Subordinates to get results
  • Peers to get support, cooperation and collaboration

18. Counseling
19. Managing Family Members

  • Spouse
  • Children (Parenting)
  • Parents
  • Parents in law

20. Managing the people in your social circles (Relatives, friends and others)

The Uses of KYKO (Know Yourself + Know Others)

  1. KY (Know Yourself) For the Individual
    Identify the strengths and shortcomings in ourselves i.e. identifying the dominant and weaker selves
    How to develop one’s profile to fit a career
    Offers the power of choice to an individual either to remain as he/she is or go on the path of career growth
  2. KO (Know Others) for the individual
    How to motivate others
    How to make things happen for, with and through others
    How to get the support of your superiors
    How to get cooperation from your peers
    How to influence customers to get repeated business
    How to influence and lead subordinates to produce results
    How to enhance relationships with others
    Offers a choice between having a constructive or destructive relationship with others
    Be able to anticipate and predict and consequences of yours and others’ behaviors through interaction
    To delegate, assign or deploy the right job to the right candidate
    To identify candidates with the right potential for development and rewards
    Identify problem employees and to assist in their salvation within an organization
    To facilitate coaching, counseling, guidance and disciplinary processes.
  3. KYKO (Know Yourself + Know Others) for an Organization
    Recruitment, selection, development, retention and retrenchment of personnel
    Manpower planning and human resource development

Thursday, December 20, 2007

KYKO's five (5) dimensions of trait clusters

Egocentric Self
The need for power, image and control

Sociocentric Self
The need for love, care, companionship and affiliation

Security Self
The need for safety, system, structure, order and protection

Self-Actualizing Self
The need for growth, progress, self development, achievement and fulfillment

Manipulative Self
The need to adapt, change and be flexible to survive in a turbulent dynamic environment.