Abstract: Integrity test, one paper-pencil test, is used to evaluate employees’ honest, integrity, and reliability during personnel recruitment and selection, and predict their stealing behaviour, counter-productivity, and performance. This article summarizes the development and application of the integrity test in Western Countries. Integrity test generally showed acceptable reliability and validity. Conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability dimensions of the Big-Five personality traits were found to be the potential constructs of the integrity test, and other individual constructs beyond of the Big-Five personality traits were also found to have a significant relationship with integrity test. The integrity test scores were significant predictors of counter-productivity and overall job performance. Based on a few controversies and problems for the integrity test in Western countries, several suggestions for its development and application in China are proposed

Key words: personnel recruitment, selection, integrity test, reliability, validity