Perceived Wage Inequity Can Often Be Used to Rationalize Employee Theft

As professionals charged with addressing the underlying causes of employee theft, we should recognize that this situation creates the perfect environment for encouraging minority retail associates to take informal action on their own to correct perceived workplace inequity. In other words, gender…or racial and ethnic…wage inequity creates a social climate that encourages pilferage, theft, dishonesty, and counterproductive behavior to be rationalized as a justified response in the mind of these employees. This means that the seeds of employee dishonesty may still be present in many companies and workplaces all across the land. I hope that most readers of this column will agree that this is not a healthy situation. Click here to read more