Honesty is just good business. Employee honesty pays.
Theft carries considerable costs.
Both affect more than just the bottom line each day. Keeping the organisations name and image untarnished is important. The organization is no better than its people - honesty is developed from the top down and theft rises from the bottom up to the level you allow. A serious programme to promote ethical behaviour within the business requires organisational development to define clear policy to offer awareness training to secure employee cooperation to deter theft to install auditing and reporting systems to test for vulnerability to clarify ethical dilemmas and sanctions. The extra costs of continuing to employ poor performers because employment law makes it difficult to dismiss them are to great.