Employment integrity testing
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Integrity
is a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. Some synonyms are uprightness, honesty, probity, rectitude, truthfulness, veracity, trustworthiness, fairness, honor, moral fiber, principle, soundness, wholeness, and oneness. All of these words describe the type of employee one would like to hire.
Integrity testing, pre-employment screening, employee assessments, credibility testing and employment testing are all synonyms for the analyses used in detecting employee concealment. These tests are supplemental to background check
s and can also be administered after candidates have started to work.
Industrial espionage
is one of the most important security issues in the business world today and regular integrity testing can assist in the reduction of negligent hiring liability.
professionals. They enable the company to verify the veracity of the information provided to them by the potential employee. However, these background tests and credit checks require authorizations and may not create a correct profile of the candidate. Supplemental tests that can verify the characteristics. These tests are called Integrity Tests.
The claim of such tests to be able to detect "fake" answers plays a crucial role in detecting people who have low integrity. Naive respondents really believe this pretense and behave accordingly, reporting some of their past deviance and their thoughts about the deviance of others, fearing that if they do not answer truthfully their untrue answers will reveal their "low integrity". These respondents believe that the more candid they are in their answers, the higher their "integrity score" will be.
s that require employers to complete criminal background checks for certain jobs, which may include teaching, childcare and healthcare professions that involve contact with vulnerable segments of our society. The advantage of the integrity test is that it does not require the access to a candidate's criminal record
s, it gives pertinent information about how that person measures up to the company's code of conduct
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In United States, pre-employment screening has become commonplace and gained popularity over the last 25 years.
Integrity
Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions...
is a firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values. Some synonyms are uprightness, honesty, probity, rectitude, truthfulness, veracity, trustworthiness, fairness, honor, moral fiber, principle, soundness, wholeness, and oneness. All of these words describe the type of employee one would like to hire.
Integrity testing, pre-employment screening, employee assessments, credibility testing and employment testing are all synonyms for the analyses used in detecting employee concealment. These tests are supplemental to background check
Background check
A background check or background investigation is the process of looking up and compiling criminal records, commercial records and financial records of an individual....
s and can also be administered after candidates have started to work.
Industrial espionage
Industrial espionage
Industrial espionage, economic espionage or corporate espionage is a form of espionage conducted for commercial purposes instead of purely national security purposes...
is one of the most important security issues in the business world today and regular integrity testing can assist in the reduction of negligent hiring liability.
Pre-employment Screening Tests
Pre-employment screening tests are an invaluable tool to human resourceHuman resource
human resource may stand for:* another name for an employee* human resources, another name for labor* Human resource management, the strategic approach to management of human resources* Human Resources , a Doctor Who audio drama...
professionals. They enable the company to verify the veracity of the information provided to them by the potential employee. However, these background tests and credit checks require authorizations and may not create a correct profile of the candidate. Supplemental tests that can verify the characteristics. These tests are called Integrity Tests.
Psychological/work-selection tests
The procedures known as "integrity tests" or (more confrontationally) as "honesty tests" aim to identify prospective employees who may hide perceived negative or derogatory aspects of their past, such as a criminal conviction, psychiatric treatment or drug abuse. Identifying unsuitable candidates can save the employer from problems that might otherwise arise during their term of employment. Integrity tests make certain assumptions, specifically:- that persons who have "low integrity" report more dishonest behaviour
- that persons who have "low integrity" try to find reasons in order to justify such behaviour
- that persons who have "low integrity" think others more likely to commit crimes — like theft, for example. (Since people seldom sincerely declare to a prospective employers their past deviance, the "integrity" testers adopted an indirect approach: letting the work-candidates talk about what they think of the deviance of other people, considered in general, as a written answer demanded by the questions of the "integrity test".)
- that persons who have "low integrity" exhibit impulsiveImpulsivityImpulsivity is a personality trait characterized by the inclination of an individual to initiate behavior without adequate forethought as to the consequences of their actions, acting on the spur of the moment. Eysenck and Eysenck related impulsivity to risk-taking, lack of planning, and making up...
behaviour - that persons who have "low integrity" tend to think that society should severely punish deviant behaviour (Specifically, "integrity tests" assume that people who have a history of deviance report within such tests that they support harsher measures applied to the deviance exhibited by other people.)
The claim of such tests to be able to detect "fake" answers plays a crucial role in detecting people who have low integrity. Naive respondents really believe this pretense and behave accordingly, reporting some of their past deviance and their thoughts about the deviance of others, fearing that if they do not answer truthfully their untrue answers will reveal their "low integrity". These respondents believe that the more candid they are in their answers, the higher their "integrity score" will be.
Periodic Employment Testing
This type of reusable testing enables employers to verify that the employees that are currently working are performing to the company's code of conduct. In addition it enables companies to obtain an accurate assessment of its workforce.United States
These supplemental tests can augment the requirement by all U.S. stateU.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
s that require employers to complete criminal background checks for certain jobs, which may include teaching, childcare and healthcare professions that involve contact with vulnerable segments of our society. The advantage of the integrity test is that it does not require the access to a candidate's criminal record
Criminal record
A criminal record is a record of a person's criminal history, generally used by potential employers, lenders etc. to assess his or her trustworthiness. The information included in a criminal record varies between countries and even between jurisdictions within a country...
s, it gives pertinent information about how that person measures up to the company's code of conduct
Code of Conduct
A code of conduct is a set of rules outlining the responsibilities of or proper practices for an individual, party or organization. Related concepts include ethical codes and honor codes....
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In United States, pre-employment screening has become commonplace and gained popularity over the last 25 years.
External links
- http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/Good_practice_guide_-_Pre-employment_screening_edn2.pdf