One major purpose of this study was to repeat, with an entirely new sample, the management hierarchy validation study of the Employee Questionnaire, the personality test developed and used by Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison psychologists in their management personnel appraisals. The original study (Meyer & Pressel, 1954) was done on 459 cases, covering the period of July, 1949 to February, 1952. The present study was done on 678 cases, covering the period from July, 1955 to May, 1957. The soundness of the use of the Employee Questionnaire in the appraisal of management candidates depends, in part, on the consistency of management hierarchy trends in its various personality scales. This consistency was to be tested.A second major purpose of this study was to perform, for the first time, a management hierarchy validation study of nine new scales added to the Employee Questionnaire following the original study. The seven scales of the EQ-B of the original study were objectivity, social dominance, social extroversion, drive, detail, emotionality, and adjustment (poor). The additional nine scales which, together with these original seven scales, constitute the EQ-C of the present study, were social consideration, judgment and decision, adjustment somatic, psychopathic tendencies, drive persistence, recognition anxiety, personal achievement motivation, compensatory achievement motivation, and independent achievement motivation. In addition, the original drive scale was modified to a more limited scale: drive irritability.In the original study (Meyer & Pressel, 1954), social dominance, detail, emotionality, and adjustment (poor) were found to have observable trends and statistically significant Fs with hierarchy. Also, efforts were made to control for age, education, occupation, and bias. The general aim of the present study was to parallel, as far as possible, the original study on a new sample tested with the modified and expanded Form C of the EQ personality test. However, the results for occupation will not be presented in the present study.
