To Lie Or Tell The Truth

To Lie or Tell the Truth

In society, working is an extremely important part of our lives. Depending on the workplace, every job has common, yet uniquely different, sets of rules, regulations, and requirements. Every business requires people to fill in the various positions of manager. Management is getting work done through others (Ch. 1). Therefore, it is likely that upper-level managers will depend on employees of a lower position to complete their tasks for them. One of the most common crucial mistakes managers encounter is their inability to obtain specific performance for the business (Ch. 1). This would also lead to another top mistake of managers being over-dependent on others.

The situation expressed in "To Lie or Tell the Truth" displays opportunistic behavior, a transaction in which one party in the relationship benefits at the expense of the other (Ch. 2). In this case, Ms. Johnson concentrates on her reputation as being professional and ignores the negative impacts such as, delaying and deceiving the client. This is supported by her actions of making the decision of asking someone else to lie to another person for her own benefit.

If I were the new, entry-level manager to the marketing agency, I would have considered lying for her, but would have not gone through with it. I would have described my ethics, set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group (Ch.3), to assure to her that my decision was not of disrespect. I would also bring up the fact that her selfishness would raise ethical intensity, the degree of concern about an ethical issue, amongst the working environment (Ch.3). Of course, I would end with the conclusion that if she lied, people within our company and the client's company would hear about it, resulting to negative perceptions about her. She would be considered a person who practices a Preconventional Level of Moral Development,