1. The High Price of Employee Theft
The various causes of employee theft are explored, from employee personality characteristics, to the social environment, to flaws in the organization's control system. ... Hollinger and Clark (1983) discussed five general causes of theft: (1) economic pressure (e.g., people steal from the company because they have financial problems), (2) demographics (e.g., people steal because they come from an identifiable group that has a propensity to steal), (3) opportunity (e.g., all people will steal if they are given the chance), (4) attitudinal (e.g., people steal because they are dissatisfied w...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate