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Peter Saville
'Peter was Managing Director and Executive Chairman of SHL and was responsible for the development of the OPQ, was voted one of the UK's top entrepreneurs and received a lifetime achievement award for distinguished contribution to professional psychology.'

'Peter is passionate about customer care, scientific innovation and the need to respect the integrity of employees and the candidates for the benefit of both the organizations and its people.'

Peter Saville, Executive Chairman

BA, MPhil, PhD, FBPsS, C.Psychol, FRS

Selected Publications

In addition to founding and running SHL, Peter has published over 100 articles, papers, books and psychometric tests. A fuller list of academic and conference papers van be provided on request. Examples of these include :-

Saville, Peter. (1971), British Supplement to the Manual of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, The Psychological Corporation: London.

Saville. Peter., (1971), British Supplement to the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, The Psychological Corporation: London.

Saville. Peter., (1971), British Supplement to the Wechsler Primary and Pre-school Scale of Intelligence, The Psychological Corporation: London.

Saville, P. & Simpson, D.,(1972), The Reliability and Validity of the Computer Programmer Aptitude Battery. Science Research Associates: Henley-on –Thames.

Saville, Peter., (1972), The National Adult Standardisation of 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) NFER: London.

Saville, Peter., (1972), British Manual to the Bennett Mechanical Comprehension Tests. NFER: London.

Saville, Peter., (1973), The Standardisation of an Adult Personality Inventory on the British Population. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 26, 25-29.

Saville, P. & Simpson,D.(1973), Selection Testing for Computer Personnel. Data processing.

Saville, P. & Nyfield G., (1975,) Psychometric Testing. HTS Management Consultants: London.

Saville, P. & Blinkhorn, S., (1976) The Graduate Standardisation of the Ipat Anxiety Scale,Neuroticism Scale Questionnaire and the Eysenck Personality Inventory. NFER: London.

Saville, P. & Blinkhorn, S., Undergraduate Personality by Factored Scales. NFER: London.

Saville, P.& Hawkey, D., (1979) The Technical Test Battery. (Psychometric tests of verbal, numerical, mechanical, spatial and logical reasoning for engineers) SHL: London.

Saville,P.,Holdsworth, R.,and Nyfield, G. (1980) The Personnel Test Battery. (Psychometric tests of verbal, & numerical and clerical abilities for office staff) SHL: London.

Holdsworth, R., Saville, P., Hawkey, D., Blinkhorn, S.,and Iliffe A. (1980) The Advanced Test Battery. (Higher level psychometric tests of numerical critical reasoning, verbal critical reasoning, spatial reasoning and logical analysis). SHL: London

Saville, P. & Blinkhorn, S., (1981) Reliability, Homogeneity and the Construct Validity of Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF). Personality and Individual Differences. Vol 2 p325-333.

Saville, P., Holdsworth, R., Nyfield, G.,Cramp,L., & Mabey, W., (1984), The Occupational Personality Questionnaires (OPQ). SHL. London

Saville, P., (1985), Psychological Testing and Personnel Selection. Tyzack Review, September 1985.

Saville, P. & Munro, A.,(1985) The Relationship Between OPQ Factor Model and the 16PF. Personnel Review, Vol. 15, No. 5.

Saville, P. & Nyfield, G., (1988) Computers in Assessment. Banking and Financial Training,
December 1988

Saville, P. & Willson, E., (1991) The Reliability and Validity of Normative and Ipsative Approaches in the Measurement Personality. Journal of Occupational Psychology, 64, 219-238.

Saville, P., Nyfield, G., Sik,G.,& Hackston, J. (1991), Enhancing the Person-Job match Through Personality Assessment. At the Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.

Saville, P. & Sik, G.(1991) Ipsative Scaling: A Comedy of Measures, As You Like it or Much Ado About Nothing? Guidance and Assessment Review,7, 3, 1-4

Saville, P. & Sik, G.(1992) The Images Personality Questionnaire. SHL: London.

Saville, P. & Sik, G.(1992) Personality Questionnaires: Current Issues and Controversies. The Human Resources Management Year Book 1992, 28-37.

Saville, P. Sik, G. Nyfield,G., Hackston, J. & MacIver, R.,(1996) A demonstration of the validity of the Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) in the measurement of job competencies across time and in separate organisations. Applied Psychology
45, 243-262.

Saville, Peter. (2004) Childhood Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Facial Pain and Fibromyalgia. Dysfunctional Growth Hormone and Dopamine Regulation?. The Procrustes Foundation

MacIver, R., Saville, P., Kurz, R., Henley, S., Mitchener, A., Mariscal, K., Parry, G., Becker, S., Hurst, E., Saville, W., O'Connor, K., Patterson R., McLellan, S., Blakesley, M. (2006). The Validation Centric Development of the Professional Styles Questionnaires. Paper at the BPS Occupational Psychology Conference in Glasgow.  

MacIver, R., Saville, P., Kurz, R. Mitchener, A., Mariscal, K., Parry, G., Becker, Saville, W., O'Connor, K., Patterson R., Oxley, H. (2006)  Making Waves – Saville Consulting Wave Styles questionnaires. Selection and Development Review. 22, 2, 17-23.

Kurz R, Saville P. & MacIver R. (in press). Coaching using Saville Consulting Wave. In: Passmore. J. (Ed): Psychometrics in Coaching. Kogan Page: London.

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