Charity starts at home.\" If you don't think along these lines,ask the Salvation Army. A few years back, one of the Army'sneighborhood offices found that it had an issue with robbery amongits pot workers,the individuals who gather cash for the Army amidthe Christmas season. A portion of the Army's kettlers were takingthe Army's gifts previously the association had an opportunity todole out the cash. To put a stop to the issue, Army authoritieslooked for the help of Dr.John Jones, executive of research forLondon House Management Consultants. London House is one of a feworganizations that market trustworthiness tests for plannedworkers. 117 Although solid figures are difficult to get a hold of,the U. S. Council of Commerce trusts that upwards of 75 percent ofrepresentatives may take and that 30 percent of insolvenciesoriginate from worker robbery. Regardless of whether these figuresare overstated, nobody questions the issue is serious.Honesty-testcreators say the best way to manage the issue is before laborersare contracted by subjecting them to a pre work mental test thatwill recognize those planned representatives who are probably goingto take. James Walls, one of the originators of StantonCorporation,which has offered composed genuineness tests for aquarter century, says that deceptive activity candidates are astuteat duping potential businesses in a prospective employee meeting. \"They have a method for acting that is most likely better than thegenerally safe individual. They have realized what it takes to beacknowledged and how to defeat the typical meeting system,\" hesays. \" The high-chance individual will get enlisted unless thereis an approach to screen him.\" For this reason, Wallsmaintains,written, target tests are expected to weed out theconvicts. A large number of composed genuineness tests are givenyearly, on account of congressional confinements on polygraphtesting. Notwithstanding being legitimate, genuineness tests arelikewise practical in light of the fact that they cost just a smallamount of what polygraph tests cost

QUESTIONS:-

1. how useful or informative do you think such tests are? isthere use are reasonable business policy? assuming that tests likethose described are valid and reliable, are they fair? explain.

2. do you think tests like these invade privacy and, if so, thatthis invasion is justified? explain why or why not.

3. what ideal obligations, and effects must be considered inusing psychological tests as pre-employment screens? in your view,which is the most important consideration?

4. if you were an employer, would you require an employees orjob applicants to pass an honesty exam? explain the moralprinciples that support your position.

5. what do you think a business's reaction would be ifgovernment required its executives to submit to an honesty test asa pre condition for the company's getting a government contract?if, in your opinion, the business would object, does it have anymoral grounds for subjecting workers to comparable tests?

6. utilitarians would not find anything inherently objectionableabout psychological tests as long as the interest of all partieswere taken into account and given equal consideration before suchtests were made a pre-employment screen do you think this isgenerally the case?

7. should there be a law prohibiting or regulating psychologicaltests as a pre-employment screen? should a decision to use thesetests be made jointly by management and labor,or is testing foremployment an exclusive employer right?