Exploring Organizational Deception: Organizational Contexts, Social Relations and Types of Lying

Lying and Deception Lying and Self-deception

Questions about truthfulness occur in many contexts—when parents ask their children if they are using recreational drugs, when an employer ask applicants about the reasons they left their last job, when international leaders consider each others’ threats or promises, when voters evaluate candidates’ promises, when physicians consider a patient’s complaint, when at the start of a romantic encoun...

Socialization in Organizational Contexts

The survival of an organization depends partly on its ongoing ability to integrate new members into the fold while simultaneously allowing if not encouraging organizational change. Organizational socialization is the process by which individuals become part of an organization’s pattern of activities (Anderson, Riddle & Martin, 1999). This broad definition accommodates the impact of both the org...

Towards organizational excellence: exploring culture, information and organizational hierarchies

This paper presents the cultural results of a three-year study into the concept of information fulfilment, and considers the impact of culture on levels of information fulfillment and how this can help to achieve organizational excellence. Ethnographic studies were undertaken within higher education institutions in four countries, by examining each organization’s shape and comparing it with the...

Contracts and Contract Analogs in Organizational Contexts

According to a composite of several well-esteemed English dictionary definitions, the word context has two primary meanings. Most basically, it is defined from a linguistic viewpoint as “a group of words of interest that either precede or follow another word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect.” (Aside: In linguistic semantics, the phenomenon that the interpretation of an expr...

Deception and lying.