IntroductionIn the case study honesty testing at the Carter Cleaning Company, there are issues of theft. They find themselves struggling with the processes of screening for honest hardworking employees. The owners, Jennifer and her father, are looking for a way to minimize the employee turnover and more so is theft prone.Questions and Answers to the QuestionsWhat would be the advantages and disadvantages to Jennifer’s company of routinely administering honesty tests to all its employees? According to Dessler (2008), some advantages are that honesty tests are “designed to predict job applicants’ proneness to dishonesty and other forms counterproductivity. Most of the tests measure attitudes regarding things like tolerance of others who steal, acceptance of rationalizations for theft, and admission of theft-related activities (p. 236).†These types of test prove to have minimal legal risk to employers (p.237). Specifically, what other screening techniques could the company use to screen out theft-prone and turnover-prone employees, and how exactly could these be used?
