Tag: dishonest employee
Taking a Data-Centric Role to Add Value to Your Company
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dan Faketty is vice president of asset protection for Southeastern Grocers based in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to moving into a leadership role...
How to Craft a Flawless Interview Closing Statement after an Investigation
A well-crafted statement freezes the moment of the admission or confession, providing the reader a snapshot into the mind of the guilty party.
Analyzing Employee Theft Statistics from a Specialty Retailer
When I was a doctoral graduate student at the University of Minnesota during the late 1970s, I began conducting research on employee theft. At...
Loss Prevention Lawsuits: The Expert’s Role
Contemporary loss prevention policies in the retail industry are a consequence of the so-called “litigation explosion” that dates back to the early to mid-1980s....
Signs of Deception and Lying in an Interview
Many people believe when an individual refuses to make eye contact there is a strong indication the person is being deceptive. People also believe...
Employee Theft Consequences: Risk vs. Gain Theory
I have frequently heard managers conveying the wrong message when addressing associates about employee theft consequences. These managers say things like "Don't steal, or...
Job Interview Preparation for a Winning Approach
Countless elements go into building a successful loss prevention career. We evolve through a series of self-discoveries as the many features that make up...
Closing a Retail Store: Loss Prevention’s Role
In recent years, senior loss prevention executives throughout retail have had to come to grips with a different type of promotional sale events—the all-too-frequent store-closing sale.
It...
Does “Normalization of Deviance” Really Exist in the Workplace?
I think many of us have been somewhere and heard the phrase, “We have always done it that way; why should we change?” I...
Preparing the Final Voluntary Statement
When we first started to provide interview training to Europe in 2009, we were surprised to find that the process of obtaining a voluntary...