In all my years helping businesses identify and root out deception in their ranks, the need for deception detection training has never been this great. In the past year alone, numerous studies have clocked the rise in workplace fraud, with incidents escalating to crisis levels.
Median losses from occupational fraud jumped a whopping 24 percent, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. And a study published last year in Strategic HR Review found absenteeism has gotten so bad that employers should be "embracing the power of covert surveillance"—not a recommendation with which I agree.
It's not just lower rungs in an organization that are plagued by double-dealing. Some of the trickiest situations HR leaders face involve higher-ups. The ACFE found that median losses from frauds perpetrated by owners and executives were more than seven times greater than those carried out by employees. A study in the Journal of Criminology found “strong evidence that corporate psychopaths—ruthless people who willingly engage in fraud and even enjoy outwitting and stealing from others—are a dominant force at senior levels in financial organizations."
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