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Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions 11th Edition by Ronald Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst,Kristen Lucas
Edition 11ISBN: 978-0078036804Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions 11th Edition by Ronald Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst,Kristen Lucas
Edition 11ISBN: 978-0078036804 Exercise 4
Is Total Honesty Always the Best Policy?
In principle, few people would dispute the ethical principle that honesty is the best policy. At the same time, it is hard to imagine a world in which everyone told the whole truth all the time.
Explore how you can reconcile the need to be honest with other goals by recreating a list of all the opportunities you had to tell the truth during a typical day. Identify each occasion when you chose to either:
Keep quiet instead of volunteering the truth.
Based on your self-analysis, construct a principled yet pragmatic code of ethics involving honesty.
In principle, few people would dispute the ethical principle that honesty is the best policy. At the same time, it is hard to imagine a world in which everyone told the whole truth all the time.
Explore how you can reconcile the need to be honest with other goals by recreating a list of all the opportunities you had to tell the truth during a typical day. Identify each occasion when you chose to either:
Keep quiet instead of volunteering the truth.
Based on your self-analysis, construct a principled yet pragmatic code of ethics involving honesty.
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Volunteering the truth is basically bein...
Communicating at Work: Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions 11th Edition by Ronald Adler,Jeanne Marquardt Elmhorst,Kristen Lucas
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