OBPI: Orpheus Business Personality Inventory
The OBPI is a work-based psychometric assessment of personality and integrity. It includes the work-based big-five OCEAN dimensions of Extraversion, Authority, Conformity, Emotion and Detail and seven integrity scales assessing
- Proficiency,
- Work Orientation
- Patience
- Fair-mindedness
- Loyalty
- Disclosure
- Initiative
The OBPI was originally published as Orpheus by Pearson Talent Lens in the UK. The OBPI is currently published in Portuguese by Nilapress in Brazil. For more informtaion on the UK English version contact The Psychometrics Centre at the University of Cambruidge.
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
- 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.