How managers encourage - but can deter - employee theft
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Jerald Greenberg |
Managers will be challenged by a special presentation at Macquarie University which will ask them to entertain the possibility that through their own actions they might be partly responsible for petty theft among employees.
While we learn about stories of large scale misuse of company funds through the media, most employee theft occurs on a much smaller scale. Petty theft among employees is widespread and costs billions of dollars each year. Traditional deterrents, such as improving security systems and the screening of potential employees, works to a small extent but more can be done.
The seminar, organised by the Macquarie University Department of Psychology and the College of Organisational Psychologists (NSW), will feature Professor Jerald Greenberg, an international expert on business ethics. Greenberg will focus on specific things that managers do intentionally or unknowingly, that promotes theft among employees and will provide ways to avoid them.
About the speaker
Greenberg, Professor of Business Ethics at Ohio State University, is best known for his pioneering research on organisational justice and is a popular speaker on issues of business ethics for corporate groups all over the world.
Several of Greenberg's 150 publications have received awards, including the William Owens Scholarly Contribution to Management Award from the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. Among his 20 books are the Handbook of Organisational Justice and a best-selling textbook, Behaviour in Organisations.
He is currently the Associate Editor of the journal Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.
In recognition of his research accomplishments, Greenberg won the 2005 Herbert Heneman Career Achievement Award granted by the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management.
How managers encourage – but can deter – employee theft will be held on Thursday 14 December from 6pm in the Mason Theatre (E7B T1) at Macquarie University. Admission is free and no fee will be charged to park on campus. Everyone is welcome.
For further information contact Dr Ben Searle on (02) 9850 8066 or ben.searle@mq.edu.au