Once again, we are seeing a nice surface metaphor for another argument where everyone agrees become popular enough to sell books, hit the blogosphere, and even become a marketing theme.

Do you remember I’m OK, You’re OK? Similar wave. Different decade. But the more things change, the more you see old ideas repackaged.

You can have a look at the ideas in the article that spawned it all in 2004 called Nasty People. Read the book and learn something about surviving psychological abuse and building a more civilized workplace. Then read this interesting article entitled Boss Science. You may be amused by the alignment in the authors’ thinking on fitting personality traits with roles and “the psychopathology of the modern American corporate leader”.

What much of this approach comes down to is really quite simple: cultural fit. But how do you measure it well? Many Taleo customers have used our structured assessment platform to develop their own assessments or use custom assessments developed by our industrial/occupational psychologists. Learn how to use a pre-hire assessment to find if there is a cultural fit between candidates, roles, and your organization.