PSYCHOLOGY CAN HELP IDENTIFY FRAUDSTERS, BUT CYBERCRIME MAKES THIS JOB MUCH HARDER
January 1st, 2017
Companies want to avoid hiring fraudsters, but can trained HR professionals weed out the scammers at interview through detected personality traits – or sensitive managers pinpoint an employee who has an inbuilt propensity for graft?
Research can certainly help employers know who is more likely to turn fraudster than not, but it is far from a precise science.
Take the case of Australian investment banker Oliver Curtis, convicted of insider trading in June 2016. It occupied his country’s media for weeks. Handsome, educated at one of the city’s best private ...
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