Re: Question on behalf of a student

[David Campbell]

There is an excellent book that covers honesty and integrity testing by Murphy called "Honesty in the workplace."  You might also refer the student to a book by Miner with a title like "How honesty testing works."  Any recent industrial/organizational psychology text like Muchinsky's "Psychology in the workplace" should have a section covering this topic with associated references.

As I recall, personality variables like impulsiveness, sensation-seeking tendency, and conscientiousness have significant correlations with employee dishonesty and theft.  Behavior variables like drug abuse also have such a correlation.

  --Dave

Beth Bennett wrote:

Tipsters,

 

I was discussing with my Social Psychology class the other day research on plagiarism (by such noted tipsters as Miguel Roig among others).  One of my students who is interested in Human Resource Management asked if I knew anything about a matching literature on employee dishonesty and the kinds of situational and individual difference variables that contribute to it.  I am hoping that someone in Tips Land may be able to give me a pointer to a good article or two that I can use to get the student started.

 

Thanks,

 

Beth

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