Keith McGregor

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Keith McGregor
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Keith McGregor

Keith McGregor holds a degree in psychology from Victoria University.He is the author of the Selector PA suite of software.

He joined Gilmour McGregor and Associates Ltd as a director in May 1986.Prior to this he spent 12 years with the Royal New Zealand Air Force as an industrial psychologist.During this time, Keith was involved in a wide spectrum of organisational and personal psychology, including areas such as selection test development, interviewing, training development and validation, personal counselling, large scale survey work and statistical analysis.Also during this time Keith represented the New Zealand Defence Forces in behavioural sciences projects with psychologists and researchers from the British, Canadian, Australian and American armed forces.

As a principal in Gilmour McGregor & Associates, Keith is directly involved in the activities of the company which employs registered psychologists of various disciplines: clinical, forensic and industrial.Among the numerous organisations he works with, both national and international, Keith is recognised for his executive assessment work and in particular for his extensive knowledge of interview techniques, testing and test development.

Large scale survey research work also remains a focus, as does staff training, organisational development and career related counselling.Keith is actively involved in the study and application of psychological factors which influence safety behaviours in industrial and aviation settings and is an organisational factors consultant to the Transport Accident Investigation Commission.

As a special interest Keith also maintains ongoing contact with a number of voluntary organisations and secondary schools - an interest which provides him with regular testing ground for his training skills in the form of vigorously skeptical sixth and seventh formers.

Keith is a member of the occupational division of the New Zealand Psychological Society.

The director, Keith McGregor, is an industrial psychologist whose background includes twelve years as an occupational psychologist in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and over fifteen years in private practice working with a wide range of private and public sector organisations in New Zealand and Australia.

The construction of the assessment items initially used the experience of Keith McGregor , an industrial psychologist with over twenty-five years experience in test development and employment assessment.He started by identifying a set of 20 behaviors that were considered as important in employment situations.These had been earlier confirmed from the results achieved from SelectorPA , namely that employers were interested in how candidates scored in the areas of ability and their reasoning style , interpersonal style , work style and coping strategies.

After confirmation with a peer review , each behavior had two main descriptors written , both of which describe each end of the continuum under examination ; eg.I am outgoing and I am reserved , when discussing introversion/extroversion.Next , two examples of those behaviors were written , describing the activities that match each end of the same continuum ; eg.I like going to parties and like time to myself.