The Find: Practical, expert guidance on how to stay on the right side of the ethical divide when polishing your resume. The Source: Harvard Business Online's Conversation Starter. The Takeaway: When you're applying for that dream "reach" job the temptation is always there to,...
Deceptive communication takes many forms. However, three dominate deception strategies have been observed in interpersonal communications. One strategy is falsification where the deceiving party (also referred to as the "Sender") creates a fiction (i.e., flat-out lies to the recipient of the communication, who is also referred to as the "Receiver")....
This white paper deals with the Deception which is common, yet communication research has shown that people perform little better than chance at successfully detecting it. This paper deals with the two different laboratory studies of deception and its detection in face-to-face groups, communicating either with electronic support or without...
NEW YORK-The 500 pages of court documents that make up the reorganization plan Kmart filed last week show a pattern of misdeeds, deception and financial recklessness. For example, the retailer revealed -- with some shocking detail -- the wrongdoings NEW YORK-The 500 pages of court...
CHICAGO -- Building on the success of its award-winning Mortal Kombat franchise, Midway Games Inc. (NYSE:MWY), a leading software industry publisher and developer, today announced that it has shipped Mortal KombatR: DeceptionTM for the Nintendo GameCubeTM. Featuring exclusive GameCube content, Mortal Kombat: Deception allows fans to play as and against...
A couple of tips: Candour's much to be admired. But our social upbringing teaches us the need of a little opacity, argues Stefan Stern in the FT. He's considering the merits of a new book, "Beyond Bullsh*t" by Samuel Culbert, a professor of management...
British businesses are suffering an epidemic of "Crowhursting" -- sending out deceptively cheery messages that bear little resemblance to the truth, says Libby Purves, recounting the tale of Donald Crowhurst, who died trying to sail around the world in The Sunday Times Golden Globe race...
A Justice Department probe said Monday that native Utahn Kyle Sampson, when he was chief of staff to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, pushed an "unsystematic and arbitrary" process to fire nine U.S. attorneys for political reasons -- and then lied about it. In response to the...
Conservative GOP people such as Sen. Chuck Hagel, David Brooks and George Will are putting their country first by speaking out on the real dangers of Sarah Palin's unreadiness and John McCain's impetuous, reckless judgment and temperament. While Palin is accomplished in her own way and has, for many, an...
NFL (6:30 p.m., ESPN): Ravens at Steelers Big Bang Theory (7 p.m., Ch. 2): Leonard dates Sheldon's enemy. Dancing with the Stars (7 p.m., Ch. 4): The remaining teams perform. Terminator: Sara Connor Chronicles (7 p.m., Ch. 13): Cameron forgets who...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/880ce7/laws_task) has announced the addition of the "Law's Task" report to their offering. What is the ultimate task of law? This deceptively simple question guides this volume towards a radically original philosophical interpretation of law and justice. Weaving together the philosophical, jurisprudential...
AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb face separate trials for alleged unfair and deceptive practices relating to cancer fighting drugs. BOSTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Two major pharmaceutical companies are facing the fire this week after U.S. District Judge Patti Saris approved two national classes in the Average Wholesale...
IS anyone going to pick up the baton on Kirklees Equality and Human Rights Agency? And, what's more, explain to the public what has happened? Here we have or had an organisation which was run by convicted fraudster Carl Hayes and has now become defunct because...
For all its stunts, vacuities and plain deceptions, there was something undeniably compelling about Gordon Brown's conference speech in Manchester. Here was an old stager, battered and bruised, giving his all to what may be his last such performance as Labour leader and Prime Minister. Even as he claimed to...
Most Americans are angry and resentful about the Bush administration's demand that Congress make available $700 billion of their money to bail out Wall Street firms that made poor investments in acts of greed designed to increase the $25 million annual salaries of the chief executive officers. ...
Byline: By IAN JOHNSON THERE'S a new kid on the block in the world of light vans. It is the Citroen Nemo, a real cheeky chappie of a commercial which introduces something of a fun element into this intensely competitive businesslike world. Based on...
GREAT WORKS In a picture, all sights are fixed. Whatever's blocked from view, or turned away from view, is stuck that way. Nothing the viewer can do, nothing the picture can do, will show more, or less, of anything. But the limits of an art can...
Today African American leaders inCalifornia called on the tobacco industry to stop targeting their communitywith the promotion of menthol cigarettes and deceptive advertising.Menthol cigarettes are not more toxic than regular cigarettes, but theminty flavor and cooling sensation makes them more enticing and easier tosmoke, paving the road to nicotine addiction....