Why Worry About Employee Theft?
Employee theft costs employers billions every year. Every dollar of employee theft is a dollar of profit lost.
Yet, while many employers continue to lose from employee theft, successful businesses are able to follow up on and solve every employee theft case that presents itself. How?
By using in-depth questionnaires and, when appropriate, polygraphs and lie detector tests, stealing in the workplace can be stopped.
Employee Theft: It Starts With Hiring the Most Honest Employees for the Job
Sorting through all the job applications you receive can be a challenge. That's why we offer some tools to help you find the best, most honest employees.
It starts with the right forms - and we have a package of Employment Forms with everything you need. Eighteen forms you can download and customize to fit your needs.
Next, you need to screen to find the most honest employees. And the VAQ™ Pre-employment Test is the most effective pre-employment honesty screening tool available.
Employee Theft: Identifying the Culprit
If you've already experienced employee theft - or suspect you have - we have the tools to identify who was involved. You can put a stop to it almost immediately. It's simply a matter of administering the right questionnaire to the right employees, i.e., anyone who had access who what's missing.
Knowing how to examine and solve an employee theft case requires a full understanding of what's going on - and the people with the most knowledge are typically the people who had access - your employees.
The Shortage Questionnaire™ - The SQ™ tells whether inventory shortages and cash shortages are being caused by employee theft, outsider theft, or other factors.
The Specific Loss Questionnaire™ - The SLQ™ reveals which employee(s) stole a specific amount of missing money or merchandise. Importantly, the SLQ™ also identifies which employees know who stole the missing money or merchandise.
The Polygraph Question
An employee theft investigation is well served through the use of a polygraph - or lie detector test. However, since Congress passed the Employee Polygraph Protection Act in 1988, an employer must establish a basis of "reasonable suspicion" before a polygraph can be used to search for the truth. That's why we offer the Reasonable Suspicion Questionnaire™. The RSQ™ establishes "reasonable suspicion" as required by law.
