British “corporate philosopher” Roger Steere has developed an on-line “Ethicability” test that is worth the time to take. (I know…I hate the title too.) Of course, self-evaluations of ethical conduct are notoriously suspect, as the Gallup Poll proves every year. (Most Americans think they are the most ethical individuals they know.) This one focuses on integrity, however, and the computer-generated scores and the personal assessment are thought-provoking. I took it; I think anyone who knew me well would have been more accurate, but it wasn’t wildly off the mark.
See how you do, and if you have a couple more minutes, post your reactions at Ethics Alarms. Is this sort of thing useful?
The test is here.
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I took it and I can see how my thoughts and feelings this evening guided or biased my answers, which ultimately lead to the scores on the report.
I think it might be most useful as an “icebreaker” to a discussion…but the key to that is you need another party in the discussion to talk to about why you answered certain questions the way you did and how you would like to improve your life based on those responses.
The main problem with a public discussion on scores of this nature is that if you answered honestly (which is the first hurdle) if you are discussing a high score in an area – you might come off as a “holier than thou” jerk. But if you scored low in an area – you might be inclined to shrink away from the discussion and certainly if you opened up about the low score, you won’t get good advice from random strangers or from a superficial discussion.
Well, that leaves me free, since a lot of people believe that writing this blog automatically makes me a a Holier Than Thou jerk.
I found the test and the results quite interesting. I’m curious as to why you could only have the same answer twice on the blocks of five section. There were times I had to answer inaccurately because I had already used the answer twice. How could this give you an accurate picture? Is it because you must decide which items were most important to answer truthfully?
That’s the idea. I’m not so sure it’s a good idea.
Well, it’s better than the woeful Myers-Briggs test, which in my view tells people precisely nothing of any help or even truth. This one suffers from the drawback of all such tests — the only interesting scores are those far away from average — but at least it doesn’t take very long and makes you think about how you view yourself vs. how you think other people view you.
There was only one instance in which I had to change my knee-jerk answer to any question because of the two-answer restriction.
My out-of-whack areas were social conscience, wisdom, and self-control (9); and humility (1). ‘Nuff said.
Took it. And just answering the questions, I don’t like myself very much. Though if it IS like the MBTI or Team Management Index, then another day I might be feeling better about myself and answer more positively.