From Hire to Liar : The Role of Deception in the Workplace / David Shulman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shulman, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private investigators.

Work ethic.

Deception.

Organizational behavior.

Business ethics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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 IntroductionAccording 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: IS DISHONESTY THE REAL POLICY?

1. PRIVATE DETECTIVES AND DECEPTION AS OFFICIAL WORK

2. BUILDING BELIEVABLE LIES

3. JUSTIFYING WORK-RELATED DECEPTIONS

4. THE SHADOW WORLD OF UNOFFICIAL DECEPTION

5. SUBTERRANEAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING

6. DECEPTION AS SOCIAL CURRENCY

7. GOOFING OFF AND GETTING ALONG

8. THE EVERYDAY ETHICS OF WORKPLACE LIES

9. APPRECIATING DECEPTION IN THINKING ABOUT ORGANIZATIONS

Appendix. RESEARCH DESIGN

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-207) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-2988-8

OCLC:

1080549266