Reading Your MAPP™ Report
MAPP focuses on motivation. MAPP does not determine whether you can or cannot perform in a job, rather indicates if you will perform. Motivation is what drives an individual from the inside. It cannot be learned or taught, this is just who you are. Therefore, our goal is to aid you in identifying your motivations and learning how to use them to be successful in your career and life plan.
While reading your MAPP, concentrate on the Motivation Levels 1-5. The Motivation Level determines your motivation toward the given area listed. If you have a lower motivation level this does not mean you cannot do that task, it simply means you would rather not.
Introduction to MAPP
MAPP identifies an individual's motivation towards work tasks. It can assist you with hiring, promoting, career MAPPing, succession planning, work team development, outplacement and conducting job searches.
MAPP does the following:
- Measures your potential and motivation for given areas of work.
- Describes your temperament, aptitude and vocational interests.
- Formats information in three ways:
- Narrative
- Numeric
- Graphical
Backed by over forty years of ongoing development and success, MAPP is available in six languages (English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish).
Your report consists of several sections.
- The narrative interpretation and ranking of your strongest worker traits.
- Detailed numerical presentation of these same worker traits.
- Graphical look at the same information in chart form.
- Vocational analysis (a breakdown of vocational categories as suggested by the US Department of Labor).
- Educational analysis. It assists in course selection and career planning.
As you review your appraisal note that the numbers presented on the right side of the worker traits have specific meaning.
| MAPP Motivations Sample |
APTITUDE FOR THE JOB
(Expression of performing tasks) |
| P | Sensory/Mental awareness of pieces of the picture | 1 |
| G | Intellectual and/or Analytical orientation | 1 |
| V | Literary and/or Communicative orientation | 1 |
| S | Mental/Sensory awareness of the “big picture” | 2 |
| N | Computational or analytical use of numbers | 2 |
| Q | Sensory/Mental awareness of detail per se | 3 |
| E | Simultaneous skills in complex physical tasks | 4 |
| F | Mental/Sensory skills in handling fine detail | 4 |
| M | Manual dexterity in routine “workbench” activities | 4 |
| C | See and sense colors, shades, patterns, textures | 5 |
| K | Mental/Sensory coordination of physical action | 5 |
The left column is a set of computer reference codes. They are there for coding purposes only. The column of numbers at the right indicates the motivation level you have for that particular trait. There are five levels of motivation:
- Compelling traits. These are your strongest traits will help you to be succesful in your job
- Highly motivated traits. These are very important for you to express in a job
- Moderately motivated traits for you
- Traits that have little or no importance to you
- Traits that are aversions for you
Think of these as “energy” traits that are on a continuum, from positive to negative. Traits with 1’s and 2’s are on the positive end of the energy spectrum indicating that you are highly motivated to use these traits, and 4’s and 5’s on the negative end.
Keep in mind that because a trait is at level 4 or 5 does not mean you cannot perform tasks related to that particular trait. It simply means you do not desire to perform those tasks regularly.
Worker Traits
The MAPP analyzes your “Worker traits” as they relate to your potential job performance. Your report is divided into nine categories, as follows:
- Interest in Job Contents - This section identifies those tasks you are motivated to perform in your work environment.
- Temperament for the Job - This group identifies how you prefer to perform tasks. They are personal traits which you have a tendency to display at work.
- Aptitude for the Job - This section includes mental, perceptual, and sensory/physical factors that show how your mind and senses work together.
- People - This section discusses your roles, relationships, and priorities. These factors indicate how you are likely to respond in your working relationships with others.
- Things - How you relate to factors such as engineering, operations, and sensory/physical illustrate technical and craft potential.
- Data - This section involves your mental orientation and order of thinking. These factors cover the full range of thinking from theory to fact, thinking to doing. If ratings are high, mental activity is an important part of your vocational activities.
- Reasoning - These factors are designed to show how you reason and where your thinking is best applied.
- Mathematical - This group of factors indicates your interest level in applying the use of mathematics on the job.
- Language - This section reports your motivation and potential in the use of language and communication.
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