Employee Screening: Theory and Evidence

• Main Authors: HUANG, Fali, CAPPELLI, Peter
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2007
• Subjects: Employee Screening; Monitoring; Work Ethic; High Performance WorkPractices; Principal-Agent Model; Labor Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1030; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2029/viewcontent/EmployeeScreening2007_920.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Arguably the fundamental problem faced by employers is how to elicit effort from employees. Most models suggest that employers meet this challenge by monitoring employees carefully to prevent shirking. But there is another option that relies on heterogeneity across employees, and that is to screen j...