Counterproductive Behavior Index™

Hire the right person with the Counterproductive Behavior Index for screening entry-level managers who supervise hourly employees.  Get the Counterproductive Behavior Index™ to Stop Bad Hires – A new low-cost screen that identifies chronic problem employees, for entry level positions.

What It’s Best Used For

• Pre-Screening Entry-Level Personnel: Filtering out high-risk applicants for hourly, entry-level positions before investing corporate capital into their onboarding and training tracks.
• Vetting Frontline Supervisors: Evaluating incoming or newly promoted entry-level managers who will be responsible for overseeing hourly workforces.
• Curbing Theft and Inventory Shrinkage: Identifying applicants with dishonest values to protect physical assets, cash handling, and retail or warehouse inventory from employee-driven loss.
• Reducing Absenteeism and Interpersonal Friction: Screening out chronically undependable individuals, or those prone to workplace aggression, to maintain consistent daily staffing levels and a safe work environment.
• Preventing Digital and Compliance Liability: Flagging candidates prone to computer abuse, online time-wasting, or high-risk behaviors like sexual harassment and substance abuse.
• Generating Behavioral Interview Prompts: Utilizing the online version’s automated reporting to instantly receive targeted interview questions mapped specifically to the candidate’s incorrect or risky answers.

Expose the 6 Deadly Sins of the Bad Hire:

• Undependability
• Workplace Aggression
• Dishonesty
• Drugs
• Computer Abuse
• Sexual Harassment

Save time, money, and stress in your workplace by screening out the chronically undependable or dishonest, before they become a management headache. This 10-15 minute screening tool provides a risk profile of the candidate that enables your organization to practice preventive medicine in your hiring and selection process.

The Counterproductive Behavior Index is the most cost-effective screening procedure to identify these high risk work- related attitudes and behaviors.

Every single day employees don’t show for work, steal cash and inventory, surf the web, e-mail on company time, and disrupt the workplace. It is burning up billions of dollars of profits and inventory each and every year.

FACT #1: Unscheduled absenteeism may be costing you as much as $755 per year per employee.

FACT #2: 7% of employees believe it’s okay to sabotage their employer’s computer system.

FACT #3: 6% of job candidates have had a criminal conviction in the last 7 years.

FACT #4: 46% of inventory shrinkage is a result of employee theft.

FACT #5: 40% of workers admit to making personal use of company e-mail and shopping online at work.

About the CBI

The CBI is a contemporary integrity test and a cost-effective screening procedure for identifying job applicants whose behavior, attitudes, and work-related values are likely to interfere with their success as employees. The CPB Index consists of an objective questionnaire with 120 true/false items that can be completed by the job applicant in 10 to 15 minutes.

How the CBI Works:

The job applicant completes the true/false paper-and-pencil questionnaire in 10–15 minutes.

The hiring manager scores the results in less than 60 seconds.

The perfect solution for every business.

Saves time and money.

Also Available Online

The Online version of the CBI automatically produces an extensive report that includes behavioral interview questions linked to incorrect answers.

An Administrator’s Manual and Technical Manual are available printed or as free PDF downloads.