New
survey reveals that young workers (age 18 to 24 years
old) in the United States are twice as likely as older colleagues
to steal office supplies for home use without thinking it
is wrong according to a April 2006 Spherion Workplace Snapshot
survey. And all those missing paper clips and pens add up
to more than $50 billion a year.
"A
lot of people that steal don't consider it stealing. They
just consider it taking things or that it's a fringe benefit,"
said John Case, head of Employeetheft.com, a security consulting
firm based in Del Mar, California. |
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There
is wide-spread concern about the honesty and integrity of
employees. Most organizations have serious problems of pilferage,
absenteeism, tardiness, employee disagreements that lead to
violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and computer misuse. The
annual loss from these counterproductive behaviors is estimated
in the billions of dollars. There was a clear need for a brief
assessment that could be used as part of the pre-employment
screening process. CandidClues™ was developed to meet
that need.
CandidClues™
assesses six areas of potentially counterproductive behaviors
by a self-descriptive inventory that taps six substantive
areas of concern as well a Good Impression (validity) scale.
- Hostility
- Conscientiousness
- Integrity
- Substance
Abuse
- Sexual
Harassment
- Computer
Misuse
CandidClues™
is modular with four “core” scales and then three
additional scales that can be added as needed. The core assessment
is 80 true/false questions and if all the core scales are
added, the assessment is 140 questions. The scores produce
a CandidClues™ profile which can then be compared to
successful and less successful incumbents in a variety of
jobs.
Developed
in an English-language version, this assessment takes only
10-12 minutes to complete. CandidClues™ is a web-based
system, but it can be given on paper if necessary (if given
on paper, the responses would be entered into the online administration
account in order to access reports).
The CandidClues™
Assessment provides three valuable reports for the user:
- Interpretive
Report: Describes the score in each scale and what it means.
- Graph
Report: A quick snapshot of the participant’s scores
and what level of concern they fall into.
- Behavioral
Interview Question Report: Follow-up questions based on
which assessment items the participant answered in a “counter-productive”
manner.
Download
a sample Candid Clues report here.
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