Honesty Within the Workplace
Recently, Pamela Meyer presented an eye opening TED talk on the nature of deception and created this infographic to illustrate the key points she made in her talk. It depicts and defines the grey middle regions that lie between truth and deception, with truth symbolically at the polar north end of the infographic, and deception at the south. Meyer’s guest blog post for a new TED Weekends column by the Hufington Post alludes to the larger implications of her research findings well- that lies and deception can take place even when an individual chooses to withhold or exaggerate information. Meyers delineation of truth and deception raises important concerns about the nature of self-marketing, and of the buttery interpersonal interactions that tend to be implicit within the nature of promotion in general. Moreover, her research raises important normative questions about how employers should measure the integrity of their employees when evaluating resumes or performance metrics within the workplace. Ultimately, although Meyer’s research gives rise to much skepticism over the validity of employee credentials, it does call for more careful and analytical review on the part of future human resource managers, as well as thoroughly substantiated resume items from prospective employees, to build a more principled future global job market.