Preventing Employees From Ruining Your Business

Employee misconduct is considered the primary reason for the failure of one-third of the businesses that fail. Research indicates that approximately 50 percent of employees steal at least one item per year. It is estimated that losses from employee theft exceed $30 billion a year. One study concluded that there were at least 415 known ways that employees can steal from their business and new ways are being discovered almost every day.

Keeping Employees From Ruining Your Business provides the business owner or manager with specific guidance on how to discover employee misconduct and provides guidance on how to prevent it. Also included are suggests for screening of applicants for employment, reducing absenteeism, and protecting your assets from embezzlement. The book is written for small business owners, supervisors, and managers, but can be beneficially used by any business person. The book also discusses how to handle employees who are caught stealing and how to investigate misconduct.

The book chapters include: Theft by Employees; Embezzlement; Computer Assisted Misconduct; Theft of Company Time; Absenteeism; Drug and Alcohol Abuse; Miscellaneous Forms of Misconduct; Investigating Misconduct; Misconduct Reduction Program; Pre-Employment Screening; and Polygraphs and Other Truth Verification Tests.