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When Are Lies Errors In Communication  Case Study

Lies and Their Consequences I once attended a training program at my place of work that focused on providing good customer service. The thing is, my job really had nothing to do with external customer service, and only by a stretch of the imagination could it be said that my work as an individual contributor had much to do with internal customer service -- a phrase that is corporate-speak for carrying out work that is of value to another department or team member. Truth be told, I signed up for the training program just to get some relief from my oppressive work. The customer service training program was conducted by a pleasant man who happened to be gay, which is neither here nor there, really, except for one factor. From what I observed, I thought he might have be able to conduct this overly simple -- reductionist -- workshops because people avoided confronting him. As he told his captive audience on the first session of the first day of the training, the workshops had been his idea. He run up a trial balloon and received approval and funding for the workshop. Compared to my work, what he did all day seemed like a cakewalk. Since I was...

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Coincidently, our company was concurrently participating in the 500 Hundred Best Places to Work competition. The assessment was a 360-degree sort, covering all the major areas of corporate life. We were encouraged to be honest in our responses, and told that all of our responses would be held in strict confidence. I had just completed the workshop evaluations for the overall customer service training, and as I recall, I gave a fairly positive review and even included some specifics about how the workshop helped me in my job -- but the examples were made up. When I completed the 500 Hundred Best assessment, however -- for some reason that escapes me now -- I felt compelled to be completely honest in my comments. What I wrote, essentially, is that the workshop was a waste of money for people in our company's line of business, that it was overly simplistic, and that reading a fold-over three-color brochure would provide more valuable information than sitting through six weeks of hand-holding and play-acting. I don't to tis day know…

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Beason, L., (2001). Ethos and Error: How Business People React to Errors. College Composition and Communication. 53(1), 33-64. Retrieved from http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/WRIT465/samples/Beason.pdf

Mazur, T.C., (1993). Lying. Issues in Ethics, 6(1). Santa Clara University, Accessed from http://scu.edu/ethics/publications/iie/v6n1/lying.html
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