Lyle M. Spencer Ph.D.

Spencer Research and Technology

Lyle M. Spencer PhD. is President, Spencer Research & Technology, co-founder of Competency International, Cybertronics Research Fellow, Director, Human Resource Technologies, author and independent consultant on competency development, reengineering human resources, and HR return on investment analysis.

As HayGroup Vice President, Research & Technology, and President and CEO of McBer & Company, Dr. Spencer developed Hay's worldwide Hay McBer practice, training four hundred consultants in Hay offices in twenty-four countries. In twenty-five years with McBer, Dr. Spencer conducted organizational diagnosis, training, and development programs for such clients as AT&T, Abbott Laboratories, DEC, Fannie Mae, General Electric, General Motors, GTE, Honeywell, Hospital Corporation of America, IBM, Merck Pharmaceutical, MCI, Nortel, Mobil, Nihon Schering and Saudi Aramco.

Dr. Spencer has managed major leadership- and organizational-development contracts with the U.S. Army and Navy. For U.S. A.I.D. and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, he managed economic development programs in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, identifying entrepreneurs and training academic, government, banking, and business people in achievement motivation techniques for stimulating national entrepreneurial activity.

Dr. Spencer developed Hay McBer's competency assessment methodology with Harvard Prof. David McClelland, and methods for calculating the costs and benefits of human resource programs. He has published books, software, and numerous articles on these topics, and trained more than a thousand HR professionals in competency and cost-benefit methods. His current research concerns reengineering human resources and the development of expert system Integrated Human Resources Management. Information Systems (IHRMIS). using multi-media, interactive voice response, and voice recognition technologies. He has taught at the business schools of the University of Chicago and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Clients/Experience:

Lyle Spencer and Spencer Research and Technology colleagues have worked with industry, health care, government, military, education, non-government (NGO) economic development, and religious organizations in more than 30 countries.

Spencer Research and Technology specializes in:

• advanced competency research; development of instruments and software tools;
  
• ROI business cases and validity evaluations of competency applications;
  
• training seminars and certification of colleagues in Behavioral Event Interviewing,
  data analysis and competency model building;
  
• design of valid competency-based HR applications
  
• speeches on ‘what’s new: latest advances in competency findings, methods, technology, neuroscience .

•  Validating competency models and applications in terms of results outcome data: economic value added by HR
  
•  Learning/Training internal HR professionals in competency research and application methods—an approach with multiple benefits for clients:
  
• significant savings (v. what external consultants charge) in collecting Behavioral Events Interview research and assessment data;
  
• certifiable professional development, including data for dissertations and publications; and
  
• ownership of research findings: colleagues who participate in data collection and analysis believe in findings and potential benefits of applications, so are much more likely to implement findings v. those who receive ‘dump and run’ external consultant reports which tend to gather dust
  
•  Publication of research findings: reliability, validity and economic value added
  
•  eHR: capitalizing on state-of-the-art information technology to cut costs (re-engineering)