We think this is wrong for two reasons. But employers without interpersonal skills or management acumen prefer the antiseptic approach that tests afford. It's all hands-off. Just give them a score and they won't have to deal with realities of a poisoned workplace. The focus on individual personalities leads owners to a myopia about the role that competitiveness and aggression, as aspects of workplace culture, play in drawing the worst traits out of otherwise normal people.
Bosses tend to be the aggressors.
Both research summaries can be found in the Employers Department at this web site. In many cases with which we've been involved, the bully actually threatens to sue the company if they dare to discipline her. Remarkably, they even pay settlements to the tyrants, allow her to hold her job and assist the bully in the expulsion of the innocent Target. This is reality. Legal departments can be as intimidated by bullies as are their Targets.