Stop Hiring Workers with Questionable Integrity
There’s nothing quite as important to a business as integrity in the workplace. Theft, lying, chronic absenteeism, drug use, workplace disruptions — these are just a few consequences of hiring unethical employees. Employee ethics are vastly important to the health of your business. Employees who behave badly take a significant toll on today’s organizations in terms of turnover costs, workplace efficiency, profitability, and more.
Having ethics and integrity in the workplace, and in life in general, plays a crucial role in the makeup of a good employee. However, low integrity candidates are difficult to identify in the hiring process. To minimize the risk of hiring unethical individuals, it is essential to take a scientific approach to understanding candidates’ attitudes and tendencies. Using research-based integrity assessments, an organization can identify unethical characteristics in a candidate prior to selection.
Combining decades of research and analytics on how attitudes impact performance, Assess Systems conducted an objective, scientific study to determine the effectiveness of integrity assessments. The study revealed four distinct integrity profiles that were confirmed by major performance differences among specific groups based on supervisory ratings.
The study determined that integrity assessments can empower organizations to successfully avoid losses associated with counterproductive behaviors while identifying candidates who are likely to be top performers. Assessing for ethics and integrity in the workplace is a critical element in the solution to screening out risky hires.