A Counterintuitive Argument for Résumé Embellishment

Applied ethicists say little about résumé embellishment. Presumably, this is so because résumé embellishment seems obviously wrong; an instance of ordinary lying, familiar moral prohibitions against which cover the case completely. Analysis of résumé embellishment merely as ordinary lying overlooks...

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Main Author: Marcoux, Alexei M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2006
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2006, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 183-194
Further subjects:B Game Theory
B dominant strategy
B Collective Action
B co-ordinative practice
B Lying
B résumé
B hiring
B Employment
B employer
B Information
B co-ordination
B Consequentialism
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