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The Role of Deception in the Workplace
ILR Press
December 2006
On Sale: December 1, 2006
213 pages
ISBN: 0801473314
EAN: 9780801473319
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Non-Fiction
"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert,
difficult tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward
mobility to seek. . . . Most people with work experience
have encountered at least some version of exaggerated
resumes, exploitative bosses, self-interested shirking,
collusion against disliked colleagues, lying to clients, and
countless other variants of lies on the job. This book tells
the tale of such lies in the workplace and examines their
impact on ethics, administrating work, and
productivity."-from the Introduction According to David Shulman, deception is a pervasive element
of daily working life. Sometimes it is an official part of
one's work-as in the case study he offers of private
detectives, who lie for a living-but more often it is simply
part of the fabric of life on the job. Shulman argues that
workplace cultures socialize individuals into using
deception as a tool in performing their everyday work. To
make his point he focuses not on extreme cases but rather on
less obvious forms of deception, such as pretending to show
deference, shirking one's work, crafting misleading
accounting reports, making false claims to customers and
coworkers, and covering up business transgressions. Shulman analyzes the motives, tactics, rationalizations, and
ethical ramifications of acting deceptively in the
workplace. From Hire to Liar offers readers both detailed
accounts of workplace lies and new ways to think about the
important effects of everyday workplace deceptions.
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