I expect the disposition to take responsibility can be developed, since at least for myself I didn’t always do it and now I do, but I only learned to do it after some significant psychology development (what I would call making the 3-4 transition in Kegan/CDT terminology), although I’m not sure how tied it is to that (haven’t spent much time thinking about what enables the disposition to total responsibility). I’m not sure how to test it but I’m fairly confident I could suss out whether someone has the disposition in an interview, though I’m not sure with what level of precision, specially being unsure how many false negatives I would generate in my assessment.
If you were to interview someone for a position, what type of work trial, case work, or other activities would you have the interviewee do for you to assess whether they have the trait of taking responsibility? Do you think just answering questions would provide enough for you to assess it, or could they do certain tasks or trials to test it?
I would just ask them questions, although to be transparent I care only some about their answers and a lot about how they answer, since I believe that to be the place where most of the information I use to make the assessment comes from. I say this because I want to make clear I don’t know how to assess this in a scalable and repeatable way I can teach others, though that might be possible although I suspect that it’s not short of teaching you to be substantially more like me in several dimensions.
I expect the disposition to take responsibility can be developed, since at least for myself I didn’t always do it and now I do, but I only learned to do it after some significant psychology development (what I would call making the 3-4 transition in Kegan/CDT terminology), although I’m not sure how tied it is to that (haven’t spent much time thinking about what enables the disposition to total responsibility). I’m not sure how to test it but I’m fairly confident I could suss out whether someone has the disposition in an interview, though I’m not sure with what level of precision, specially being unsure how many false negatives I would generate in my assessment.
If you were to interview someone for a position, what type of work trial, case work, or other activities would you have the interviewee do for you to assess whether they have the trait of taking responsibility? Do you think just answering questions would provide enough for you to assess it, or could they do certain tasks or trials to test it?
I would just ask them questions, although to be transparent I care only some about their answers and a lot about how they answer, since I believe that to be the place where most of the information I use to make the assessment comes from. I say this because I want to make clear I don’t know how to assess this in a scalable and repeatable way I can teach others, though that might be possible although I suspect that it’s not short of teaching you to be substantially more like me in several dimensions.