HR Definitions
Multilingual Profiling
What is Multilingual Profiling?
Globalisation, and the easy reach provided by the internet, means that geographic borders are becoming easier to cross for business purposes.
When conducting any assessment process, the ability to provide multilingual profiling is essential.
Being able to reach staff in any location around the globe, communicate with them, and have them communicate with you in the language with which they are most comfortable, ensures the best possible communication.
In many instances, Managers of regional offices speak English and communicate with head office in this language, but the staff they manage may only speak the native language.
In order to provide the highest possible quality of service to our clients, all Platforms and Products provided by HRworkbench are multilingual capable.
Multilingual profiling allows our systems to handle more than one language concurrently within a process.
We have clients that conduct 360-degree Profiling projects in four languages in a concurrent operation, allowing them to apply the same processes to their Global Operations in one easy step.
The validity of the data is enhanced, because the respondents fully understand what is being asked. There is no "language greyness" in the responses.
"Language greyness" occurs when people do not understand what is being said and "guess" to make sure they do not have to declare that they do not understand.
Our Questionnaires platform currently delivers in 17 languages and this number is growing rapidly based on client demand.
Languages currently online include:
When conducting any assessment process, the ability to provide multilingual profiling is essential.
Being able to reach staff in any location around the globe, communicate with them, and have them communicate with you in the language with which they are most comfortable, ensures the best possible communication.
In many instances, Managers of regional offices speak English and communicate with head office in this language, but the staff they manage may only speak the native language.
In order to provide the highest possible quality of service to our clients, all Platforms and Products provided by HRworkbench are multilingual capable.
Multilingual profiling allows our systems to handle more than one language concurrently within a process.
We have clients that conduct 360-degree Profiling projects in four languages in a concurrent operation, allowing them to apply the same processes to their Global Operations in one easy step.
The validity of the data is enhanced, because the respondents fully understand what is being asked. There is no "language greyness" in the responses.
"Language greyness" occurs when people do not understand what is being said and "guess" to make sure they do not have to declare that they do not understand.
Our Questionnaires platform currently delivers in 17 languages and this number is growing rapidly based on client demand.
Languages currently online include:
- Arabic
- Chinese Simplified
- Chinese Traditional
- Danish
- Dutch
- English-UK
- English-US
- French
- French-Canadian
- German
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese - Brazil
- Spanish
- Swedish
How can Multilingual Profiling be used?
The availability of multilingual profiling allows an organisation, or consultant, to deploy global projects that will deliver more accurate results.
The results are more accurate as forcing people for whom English is a second language to use English may distort the accuracy of assessments, and learning processes.
The results are more accurate as forcing people for whom English is a second language to use English may distort the accuracy of assessments, and learning processes.
Best Practice for Multilingual Profiling
Using culturally sensitive multi-lingual profiling in the management and development of Human Resources is Best Practice.
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