APT Launches New Human Resource Assessment System to Manage Revolutions in Business.

Business/Technology Editors

DARIEN, CT--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2001

360Metrics(SM) Improves

Revenues and Job Performance

In today's volatile economy, corporations are continually looking for ways to enhance productivity and increase bottom-line results. Applied Psychological Techniques, Inc. (APT), has developed a new, easily accessible, Web-based assessment solution that helps organizations manage revolutions in their businesses by orchestrating evolutions in their workforce.

APT, America's leading consulting firm on human resource issues, has designed 360Metrics to give corporations the ability to translate human ingenuity into measurable functionality and revenue. 360Metrics delivers a comprehensive process for conducting 360-degree assessments customized to fit any position and any business model. Streamlined and easy to use, 360Metrics helps organizations improve competitive performance and productivity in the workplace, maintain a legally defensible foundation for employee assessment, reduce costs and, ultimately, increase corporate revenues.

"Successful organizations have come to realize that talent management is integral to sustaining their growth and leadership in the marketplace," says Dr. John C. Scott, vice president and co-founder, APT. One process that has been gaining momentum in this context is 360-degree feedback. Organizations interested in developing and managing their talent assets have found that a 360 process can provide invaluable assessment and development information.

Corporations might use 360Metrics when 360-degree feedback is an input to year-end performance appraisal; when a manager has "derailed" from performance expectations; or when the system is applied globally across a corporation, resulting in high-quality feedback that enhances performance and communication among employees, improving the organization itself.

The crucial difference between 360Metrics and other 360-degree systems is its Job Modeling Tool(SM), which enables companies to customize surveys for each employee, combining core competencies and unique "key responsibility areas," tied to bottom-line results. This renders a more fair, balanced and accurate picture of performance, allowing corporations to maintain a legally defensible position for employee assessment.

With safeguards built in to make it secure, 360Metrics gives clients a variety of configurable options for maximum flexibility and control, such as determining who in the corporation will initiate the process and who will have access to feedback.

360Metrics was built by APT's multi-functional team of experts in the fields of industrial/organizational psychology, human resources, business and technology. The team has consulted on hundreds of human resource-related issues for such Fortune 100 corporations as Bristol-Myers Squibb, GE Capital, The Boeing Company, Citibank, Unilever and Texas Instruments.

For more information about 360Metrics, businesses may call APT's toll-free number at [phone].