Validation and standardization of two job- personality questionnaires, DISC Personality Profiler and Hogan Personality Inventory, among personnels of IRANs Refinery and Distribution of Petroleum Products Company

Most of the present personality measurement instruments of the country are for judging about the people in clinical contexts and they are not so much applicable in organizational contexts. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate psychometric attributes of DISC Personality Profiler (Carlson Learning Institution, 1994) and Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI, Hogan, Hogan, 1995) and their concurrent criterion validity with Myers Briggs Type Indicator (Myers, Brigs,1962) and HEXACO(Ashton, Lee,2000) in two independent studies. Samples were 230 personnel in the first, and 300 personnel in the second study selected via simple randomized technique from Isfahan Refinery and Distribution of Petroleum Products Company. Data were analyzed with percentile rank, Pearson correlation and confirmatory factor analysis .The results confirm concurrent validity of DISC and HPI. Normalization of two primary personality instruments in organizational environment. These results show that  these instrument can be used in HR significant practices namely personnel selection, classification and effective succession planning.