THE Morrison Records Bureau (MRB), a subsidiary of the US-based Morrison Corporation LLC, has launched its operations in Ghana.
The company, whose business will
primarily be background check services, is Ghana’s first technology-driven
background check company headquartered in Ghana.
Riding on the gains of the country’s
digitisation agenda, the company seeks to address the challenges and
limitations of credible background verification by employing state- of- the-art
technological solutions.
At the launch in Accra last Wednesday
in Accra, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MRB, Emmanuel Morrison,
expressed MRB’s commitment to provide businesses and individuals with tailored,
client-focused services that fully meet subscribers’ expectations of credibility.
He said the company’s unique selling proposition hinged on the
leaders’ technical prowess in Information Technology (IT) with decades of
experience in cyber security, digital identity consulting and software
engineering.
According to him, technological interventions
would address the manual and inefficient processes that yielded to integrity
doubt.
The company’s services include
verification or integrity checks in the areas of identity, education and work
history, reference checks and criminal record checks.
Negligent hiring
The Country Director for Human
Resource Certification Centre, Dr Jeff Bassey, said it was important that
companies did the necessary background checks during recruitment to avoid the
risk of being slapped with charges of negligent hiring.
“The law interestingly has not placed
a requirement or a demand on any employer to do background investigations.
“However, you do not do so at your own
disadvantage because of the negative consequences that come with not doing such
background investigations,” he said.
He described MRB as a one-stop shop for background checks for
employees and urged institutions to engage in their services.
“Companies such as MRB are experts in
credible background verification and abreast of the latest technology with the
legal requirement.
A lot of research has indicated that
when employers do these verifications readily as against when they have to
outsource some of these verification expert organisations, many of the time the
employer gets it wrong either because he doesn't have the expertise or doesn't
have that time,” Dr Bassey said.
Present at the launch were key
stakeholders in background verification such as the Ghana Police Service, Ghana
Immigration Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana Armed Forces, HRCI &
Reliance Personnel Services, representing both security services and Human
Resource (HR) practitioners.
Source: Graphic Online