In modern society, psychology is becoming increasingly stable and popular. Determining the life path, placement and selection of personnel in an enterprise is often associated with determining the inclinations of a person, including organizational and communicative ones. To determine how much the respondent has developed such abilities, the CBS technique, or the diagnostic method, helps specialists.
Projective Method - Questionnaire
The area in which this psychodiagnostic technique is successfully used is vocational guidance, or determining the respondent's propensity for any area of professional activity. CBS - a technique that belongs to the category of projective methods, a feature of which is that the subject projects his own experience on the situations proposed by the researcher. That is why the technique is recommended for the diagnostic study of people who have reached school age and older, as respondents must have a certain life experience and behavior model in certain life situations.
The principle of the diagnostic method
The KOS-1 technique was developed on the basis of the diversity of life situations offered to the respondent. This will help the subject try on various simulated situations from life and determine his own real model of behavior in them. Experts consider the level of validity, or reliability, of the data obtained to be high enough, which allows us to obtain stable indicators of communicative and organizational skills. In addition, the methodology was developed taking into account the wide range of proposed questions, taking into account the different attitudes of respondents to what is said in the questions of the methodology. This method is considered quite valuable also because it allows you to separately track the level of development of human sociability, in parallel - the level of ability to organize a team. In some cases, respondents show a sufficiently developed communicative level with a low level of development of organizational skills . There are also respondents whose diagnostic result is exactly the opposite. All these possibilities are adequately addressed in CBS. The methodology “Communicative and organizational inclinations” is considered one of the basic in the block of career guidance, therefore it is one of the first.
Career guidance capabilities of the CBS method
The professional sphere of human activity is divided into industries according to several criteria. One of them is a sign of active interaction between a specialist and people, the level of ability to organize a team. The leading content of the activities of specialists in this field is the management of a team of people of diverse quantitative and qualitative composition, teaching, upbringing, educational and social services for people. To professions that require a certain level of formation of such qualities, include the specialty of a teacher, doctor, head of departments, departments. The success of the production activities of representatives of such professions is ensured by a sufficient level of sociability and organizational inclinations, the ability to communicate with people, and organize their interaction constructively to achieve production goals. The KOS-2 technique will allow a person to understand whether he has the abilities necessary to build a successful career in a certain field of activity related to the professional field “person-person”. After all, it is in communication and joint activity with people that the ability to communicate and organize is necessary.
The principle of constructing the communicative component of the methodology
Many modern techniques make it possible to identify several aspects and characteristics of subjects at once. One of these is the CBS technique. The respondent's communicative and organizational abilities are monitored in parallel, which allows two results to be obtained simultaneously: the level of sociability and the level of ability to organize a team. The research program includes two dozen questions of the following focus:
- Does the person show a desire for communication, establishing friendly contacts;
- Does loneliness prefer spending time with friends;
- Does it adapt quickly in unfamiliar society;
- willingly responds to requests, wishes of others;
- Does it have a positive attitude to social activities, public speaking?
- Is he comfortable in the circle of unfamiliar and unfamiliar people;
- Is it easy to speak in front of a public audience?
The questions themselves are designed taking into account the actual behavior and experience of the respondent.
The principle of building the organizational part of the questionnaire
For its part, the program for constructing a study of organizational inclinations includes a slightly different focus on issues. CBS is a technique that allows you to characterize and organizational abilities of a person, because the questions of this direction have the following content:
- speed and ability to navigate in unusual situations;
- resourcefulness, perseverance and exactingness;
- propensity for organizational activities;
- independence in judgments and actions, self-criticism;
- exposure;
- attitude to social activities, sociability.
The questionnaire also includes two dozen organizational issues, which makes it quite informative for this area of research.
Wide possibilities of the popular technique
Recently, the use of the method has become quite popular not only in the vocational guidance field. Wide application possibilities for the correct placement of personnel and the formation of effective production subgroups have also been demonstrated by the diagnostic method of CBS. The methodology has been actively used by specialists of the personnel service and staff psychologists of enterprises for the constructive placement of personnel in order to prevent production conflicts and increase the level of labor productivity. To this end, the CBS method was modified for the older category of respondents, while maintaining the principle of action and the number of questions in the questionnaire. The questions themselves carry the same semantic orientation with a slightly different textual formulation. Experts point to another method with a similar name, “Scythe Cubes”. This technique does not have an identical orientation; it helps to determine the level of formation of the respondent's spatial thinking. The modified method is called KOS-2; along with KOS-1, it has been actively disseminated and applied in industrial fields and student research.
Methodology for students and employees of organizations
In the formation of student and production teams and groups, the diagnostic method KOS-2 is widely used. The “Communicative and organizational inclinations” methodology for the older category of respondents differs from COS-1 in the wording of the questions with the identical focus of the topic. Interpretation of the results of the study is carried out identically in both methods. The indicators obtained during processing are in the same numerical range. The points scored by respondents are distributed across five levels in the context of “very low” to “highest”, which helps to objectively assess the degree of sociability and organization of a person.
The results obtained at a low level
After processing the received data, the result can be from 0.2 to 1.0 according to both criteria. Points are compared with a score of 1 to 5, the classifier will help to understand and determine the qualitative characteristics of the indicators. Respondents with a rating of "1" and, accordingly, a "low level", are characterized by an extremely unsatisfactory degree of manifestation of communicative and organizational abilities. Such people are effective in individual activities, but the team should not rely on such employees when performing a joint group task. Subjects who have a level of "below average" and a score of "2", as a rule, practically do not have the initiative, are reluctant to make contacts, have difficulty navigating in a non-standard situation, and do not have sufficient speed of thinking when making decisions. Those with a “medium” level and a “3” score have a strong potential for communication and the ability to organize a group. Such people, as a rule, are quite sociable, tend to establish contacts, but can quickly lose interest in joint activities, solving production and social problems. The existing potential of such people should be purposefully developed, increasing motivation to work in a group. In the classifier of the projective questionnaire “CBS Methodology”, the author Podmazin also introduced a characterological description of the communicative and organizational inclinations of respondents who have a “high” level.
High Level Interpretation
The "high" level of the subjects who received a score of "4" indicates the ability of a person to work effectively in a team, to properly organize the collaboration of team members among themselves, to have sufficient initiative in making decisions. A "very high" level of respondents with a score of "5" indicates the leadership qualities of the subject, his desire and desire to establish contacts, including production. These people perfectly cope with the solution of production problems, willingly take the initiative in unusual situations. At the same time, experts caution that with sufficient validity and reliability of the results, the degree of situationality of the CBS method should be taken into account. The technique shows a reliable result at the time of the study. With systematic work with a person to develop communication and organizational skills, the result can change significantly.