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Worried about the workforce of tomorrow? How does the upcoming generation of workers look?

At the high school level, the “2006 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth” from the Josephson Institute of Ethics reports that:

• 62 percent of high school students in their study admitted to lying to a teacher.
• 60 percent admitted they cheated on a test within the last year.
• 33 percent said they’d plagiarized from the Internet.
• 28 percent of high school students said they stolen from a store.
• 19 percent had stolen from a friend.

Incredibly, 92 percent said they were satisfied with their personal ethics and character.

More mature students aren’t much better. A study of graduate students published last month by Donald McCabe, professor of management and global business at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey found that graduate business students cheat more than their nonbusiness-student peers.

• 56 percent of business students acknowledged cheating
• 54 percent in engineering acknowledged cheating
• 48 percent in education acknowledged cheating
• 45 percent in law school acknowledged cheating

In an interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Sachar, Michael Josephson sums it up this way

It doesn’t bode well for the future that so many kids are entering the workforce to become the next generation of corporate executives and cops, politicians and parents, journalists, teachers and coaches, with the dispositions and skills of liars, cheaters and thieves.

Whether the new workforce is any better or worse on ethics and integrity than previous generations is certainly open to debate, but one thing is sure. Employers don’t want workers with hazy attitudes about honesty, integrity, safety, theft or personal responsibility.

Avoid “bad apple” hires by using validated assessments and opinion surveys!

The Select Pre-Employment Screening System identifies hourly customer service, call center and entry-level sales/service providers with stable work-related personality characteristics and productive work behaviors.

The Orion pre-employment opinion survey identifies service-oriented people. Orion creates a positive, non-threatening approach to a drug-free workplace, providing uniformity and objectivity to the information used by management in decision-making processes. Accurate, valid and illuminating insight, free from adverse impact, into the job related attitudes applicants bring with them to the work environment – from work attitudes to theft and safety attitudes.

E-Net Hire integrity instrument is a behaviorally oriented, workplace-related assessment for entry-level employees. This highly customizable workplace attitudinal assessment system identifies the attitudes, behaviors and work ethics of entry-level job applicants, including positive and negative indicators for pre-employment, probing questions for the interview, red-light caution warnings, and coaching tips under each category for post-hire applications.

If drug use is also a concern, consider implementing an oral drug testing program.

The Intercept Oral Fluid Drug Test provides a smart alternative to costly, inconvenient and often embarrassing drug testing. It detects the SAMHSA drug panel – THC, cocaine, opiates, PCP, amphetamines, and ecstasy (MDMA) – without any need to collect urine.

Call Data Dome Inc at 404-814-0739. We can help.

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Has your company or IP address been blacklisted? Does your email go directly to quarantine?

Beyond checking that your email is legal and appropriate, make sure that your online reputation is good.

Reputation data by domain name and IP is available from such sources as IronPort’s SenderBase.org and CipherTrust’s TrustedSource.org.

You can also check DNSstuff.com to see if your IP address is currently on any blacklist.

We’ve been having to look into this because our domain name has been used as an alias address for a couple of spammers.

We only know about it when the email bounces and is thus delivered to us. Typically, it’s from something like trhisbbr@datadome.com. When we receive an out-of-office reply instead of a bounce, we send them an explanatory email.

Does anyone have suggestions for dealing with this theft of business site’s address as an alias in someone else’s spam emails?

Beyond tracking what information there is in the full header of the email, I haven’t yet seen an effective plan of action.

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