Abstract
A major home improvement chain located primarily in the western United States initiated the use of thePersonnel Selection Inventory, a written integrity test, as part of its pre-employment hiring process. For two years only, those job applicants who passed this test and other pre-employment criteria were hired by the chain. Following the introduction of the inventory, there was: (1) a 50% reduction in the number of employee terminations for theft, illegal drug use, and violence over a five year period and (2) a savings in shrinkage losses that amounted to over two million dollars over a two year period.
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Brown, T.S., Jones, J.W., Terris, W. et al. The impact of pre-employment integrity testing on employee turnover and inventory shrinkage losses. J Bus Psychol 2, 136–149 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01014208
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