Benefits

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What benefits can participants expect?

To industry:

• A code of practice accepted by all stakeholders.
• A network with similar-minded professionals in your region and across the country.
• Endorsing our code of practice provides assurance of quality and conforming to a moral code of practice
• Validated, defensible instruments.
• Expert witnesses available if challenged legally.
• Encourage a greater variety of defensible measures, allowing for more accurate assessment across a wider area.
  

To researchers/specialist psychometrists:

• Opportunity to conduct and publish research (in the Journal of Industrial Psychology and other relevant SAPSE accredited journals). Such publications also contribute to building CV's and hence increase the likelihood of promotions.
• Some paid work for conducting analyses and writing up reports on the validation studies, providing consulting work for organisations requiring input around such assessment as well as expert testimony.
  

To test developers, publishers and distributors:

• Increased business.
• Encourage a greater variety of measures.
• Encourage the distribution of better measures.
  

To the individual employee:

• Protection against unethical practices.
• Better short- and long-term guidance in terms of the appropriate career path to train for and follow.
• Better person - organisational fit with consequent enhanced job satisfaction, motivation, productivity and salary/ wages.
  

To South Africa:

• Better utilisation of human resources and consequent better productivity, profitability and taxes both in the shorter and longer term.
• More cost effective deployment of resources for development.