OBPI: Orpheus Business Personality Inventory
The OBPI s a work-based psychometric assessment of personality and integrity. It includes the big-five OCEAN dimensions of Openness-to-experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism. and seven integrity scales assessing
- Proficiency,
- Work Orientation
- Patience
- Fair-mindedness
- Loyalty
- Disclosure
- Initiative
To see a sample report click on the appropriate button below. There is also a free brochure available for download. The OBPI is published by The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge who should be contacted for for more infomation.
Benefits
- Based on the ‘Big Five’ model of personality within a work context – Fellowship, Authority, Conformity, Emotion, Detail.
- Seven additional integrity scales – Proficiency, Work-orientation, Patience, Fair-mindedness, Loyalty, Disclosure, Initiative.
- Developed in collaboration with several UK blue chip companies.
- Monitors for response biases – dishonesty, social desirability, acquiescence, contradiction.
- The OBPI is available in several languages other than English, Including French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, Bahasa Indonesian and Simplified Mandarin.
- Standardized in the UK on a representative sample of employees from a broad range of organisations, occupations, educational levels and ethnic groups.
- Its 190 items are quick to administer and score in either paper and pencil form, by computer or over the internet.
- Incorporates state-of-the-art psychometric procedures in scoring.
Publications
The OBPI was originally developed as ‘Orpheus’ in 1996 by Pearson Assessment’s talent assessment division – Talent Lens – then called The Psychological Corporation. In 2017 Pearson returned the rights to John Rust, the author. The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambridge is now the publisher.
- Lozado, J. A., Rust, J. & Menezes, I. G. (2019) Evidence of validity in adapting the Orpheus Business Personality Inventory in Brazil, Revista Psicologia Organizações e Trabalho, 19(2) 624-630.
- Rust, J. (1999) The discriminant validity of the big five personality traits in employment settings. Social Behaviour and Personality, 27(1), 99-108.
- Rust, J. (1998) The validation of the Orpheus minor scales in a working population. Social Behaviour and Personality, 26(4), 399-406.
Training in OBPI and Orpheus use
The Psychometrics Centre provides four-day training course leading to the British Psychological Society’s Certificates of Test Use (formerly the Certificates of Competence in Occupational Testing (Intermediate Level B). The last three days of the course is available for those who already have foundation training in another instrument.