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PDI Employment Inventory.

PDI-EI / EI

What it measures
Personality-based (covert) integrity / dependability - a personality-oriented integrity test predicting counterproductive work behaviour, dependability and tenure, without asking directly about past theft (contrast with overt integrity tests).
Length and format
~80-100+ (varies by edition). self-report (true/false and agree-disagree) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
English plus localized versions for North American screening (reported).
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Ones, D. S., Viswesvaran, C., & Schmidt, F. L. (1993). Comprehensive meta-analysis of integrity test validities. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(4), 679-703. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.78.4.679

https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.78.4.679

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