Employee Background Screening: A Key Tool for Workplace Trust, Safety, and Compliance

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      author = {Princewill Oseghale ABUMERE },
      title = {Employee Background Screening: A Key Tool for Workplace Trust, Safety, and Compliance},
      journal = {Iconic Research And Engineering Journals},
      year = {2025},
      volume = {9},
      number = {4},
      pages = {134-160},
      issn = {2456-8880},
      url = {https://www.irejournals.com/formatedpaper/1711083.pdf},
      abstract = {This paper examines technological innovations in background screening and their impact on workforce management. It explores the integration of AI-driven hiring tools, digital identity verification, and blockchain-based compliance systems, assessing their influence on efficiency, fairness, and global workforce mobility. Using a mixed-methods approach that combined surveys of multinational corporations with interviews of HR professionals, the study found that AI tools streamline processes and reduce administrative costs, blockchain enhances security and trust in identity verification, and perceptions of fairness strongly shape candidate trust in algorithmic decision-making. Furthermore, these technologies ease cross-border employment verification, supporting workforce mobility, yet they introduce ethical challenges linked to transparency and bias. The study concludes that organizations must balance technological efficiency with ethical oversight, recommending regulatory harmonization, bias-mitigation frameworks, and context-specific blockchain adoption.},
      keywords = {Background Screening, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Digital Identity Verification, Global Workforce Mobility, Fairness, Human Resource Management},
      month = {October},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.64388/IREV9I4-1711083-4181}
  }