"People are the key to the success of any enterprise."

Marketing Personnel Research (MPR), Inc. is management consulting firm dedicated to helping managers in the development, retention, recruitment and selection of talented personnel at any level in any industry of any size. MPR was founded in 1976 on the ideology that . . .

"The most critical ingredient for the survival and growth of any organization is talented personnel." Edward E. Ryan, MPR President and Founder

MPR concentrates on what makes successful people, successful. We have developed a systematic approach to staff management, retention, interviewing, and selection that provides a manager with the information required to make confident, well reasoned decisions; and as a result, enables your organization to increase productivity, reduce turnover and decrease costs. To realize these objectives, MPR stresses the following principles that apply to all staffing decisions:

1) Behaviors, More Than Experience, Will Predict Success
2) Experience is only one dimension of a person's profile and it is often the least predictive of their fit or success.
3) Practice Behavior Selection Not Behavior Modification
4) The purpose of any staffing process is to identify and choose those individuals who can deliver the behaviors needed to successfully perform in a given role.
5) Evaluate and Select the Whole Person
6) Hire Slowly and Fire Quickly
7) Hastily made hiring and promotion decisions usually lead to problems later that a more deliberate, thorough process up-front would undoubtedly avoid.

Three dimensions of a person are evaluated when considering their suitability:

Behavioral Traits, the behaviors required to perform the job.
Experience, the education and job-related experience that contribute to quicker productivity
Chemistry, the factors of corporate culture, management style and team dynamics.

Learn more about MPR's founder Ed Ryan, and his dynamic lecture programs!

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