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Introduction to Security

Gregorio Marrero

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Employee Theft Testing

Employee Theft Testing

The employees are often viewed suspiciously by their employers, especially when they are running a small business where cash dealings are involved. So, to keep their employees in check, they administer a series of tests that are focus on predicting the employees’ behavior in the future. These tests also help employers make final decisions when they hire fresh blood for their companies CITATION Muc12 \l 1033 (Muchinsky, 2012). These "theft tests", as some people put it, became a lot popular in the US during the 80s. Human resources found out that these tests were a lot better and resourceful than the polygraph test. Nowadays, there are two kinds of employees' test: the overt tests and personality tests. The overt tests are focused on the employees' past behavior patterns and their attitude towards theft and other counterproductive activities. These tests are mostly administered on paper and they focus on finding undesirable traits like drug abuse, criminal tendencies, and dishonesty before they materialize and cause harm. Typical questions are asked about the test takers to gauge their dispositions. The personality test strictly focuses on the personality traits that induce counterproductive behavior. For example, an employee with a lack of self-restraint can cause a serious incident with his peers, damaging the work environment and creating problems for the employer. There is also a dark side to this excessive testing. Many recruitment experts think that it is highly unfair for employers to ask high private information about their employees, as there is no protection mechanism for stopping the illegal use of the information acquired. There is also a high chance that the tendency of a particular counterproductive behavior that materializes in the results of his test may never happen. Furthermore, too much pestering behavior by the employer create a permanent rift between him and his employees, hurting the latter’s effectiveness in the work environment.

References

BIBLIOGRAPHY Muchinsky, P. (2012). Psychology Applied to Work. North Carolina: Hypergraphic Press.

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