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"Integrity, honesty, and truth seeking are clearly important virtues that most people care about and want to see promoted in society. Yet surprisingly there has been relatively little work among scholars today aimed at helping us better understand this cluster of virtues related to truth. This volume incorporates the insights and perspectives of experts working in a variety of disciplines, including philosophy, law, communication and rhetorical studies, theology, psychology, history, and education. For each virtue, there is a conceptual chapter, an application chapter, and a developmental chapter. The result is a volume that significantly deepens our knowledge about and appreciation for these central virtues"--

This volume concentrates on different forms of honesty and dishonesty in management and their consequences for managers, firms and society. These issues are related to values and behavior patterns and thus, the basis of contemporary business. Honesty can be defined as the refusal to pretend that facts of reality are other than what they are while dishonesty including lying, stealing, cheating, distortion, concealing of important information, failing to fulfill promises, and abruptly abandoning a business relationship presents its opposite. Based on chapters about China, Japan, USA, Israel, Germany, Sweden, Iceland and Estonia, the authors conclude that the understanding of (dis)honesty and (un)ethical behavior differs in different cultural, societal and organizational contexts. This volume also demonstrates that the fear of dishonesty may change a firms local and international behavior, but also managers attitude toward employees. For example, some firms avoid deeper relationship-oriented partnerships as they wish to control internal activities, avoid possible disinformation and prevent dishonesty/opportunism costs. As a result of distrust, they may also protect their firm-specific knowledge more, and this may result in a lower level of knowledge acquisition and reduce partnership satisfaction. Moreover, distrust may lead to more complex and costly contract negotiations and governance structures; complicate further business and lead to relationship termination or governance redesign. Still, sometimes dishonesty may pay off in the short term.

Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under group decisions. We find more lying in male groups and mixed groups than in female groups.

A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service—yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America. Analyzing a range of whistleblowing episodes, from the corrupt Revolutionary War commodore Esek Hopkins (whose dismissal led in 1778 to the first whistleblower protection law) to Edward Snowden, to the dishonesty of Donald Trump, Allison Stanger reveals the centrality of whistleblowing to the health of American democracy. She also shows that with changing technology and increasing militarization, the exposure of misconduct has grown more difficult to do and more personally costly for those who do it—yet American freedom, especially today, depends on it

"A debate for the predominant disposition of humanity rages between two actors: Honesty and Deception"--

A magisterial exploration of whistleblowing in America, from the Revolutionary War to the Trump era. Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service-yet they always suffer for it. This episodic history brings to light how whistleblowing, an important but unrecognized cousin of civil disobedience, has held powerful elites accountable in America. Analyzing a range of whistleblowing episodes, from the corrupt Revolutionary War commodore Esek Hopkins (whose dismissal led in 1778 to the first whistleblower protection law) to Edward Snowden, to the dishonesty of Donald Trump, Allison Stanger reveals the centrality of whistleblowing to the health of American democracy. She also shows that with changing technology and increasing militarization, the exposure of misconduct has grown more difficult to do and more personally costly for those who do it-yet American freedom, especially today, depends on it.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Ethnic Terms Used in This Book -- 1 Introduction -- Brief History of Migration -- The Contemporary Situation -- Background -- The Evolution of this Study from Literacy Research -- Focus of the Study -- Lemon Grove Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Truth -- Anglo, Middle-Class Values as Re?ected and Created in Conversation -- Sociocultural Factors Contributing to Differential Language Use -- 2 The Community and Participants -- Community Demographics -- Data and Discussion -- The Community's gang -- Cast of Characters -- Tutors -- Literacy Participants -- Conclusion -- 3 The Social Power of Language -- Social Constructivism: From History to Current Theory -- Sociology of Knowledge -- Goffman and Face -- Speech Act Theory: Austin -- Speech Act Theory Continued: Grice -- Formalists -- Functionalists -- Formalism, Functionalism, and Developing Theories of Interpersonal Communication -- Conversation Analysis and Ethnography of Communication -- Critical Language Study -- Language and Power -- Politeness -- Brown and Levinson's Model -- Criticisms of the Brown and Levinson Model -- Examples of Politeness from the Conversations -- Epistemic Modals as Politeness Markers -- 4 Conducting the Research -- Data Collection -- Methodological Perspectives -- Factors in Data Collection -- Modal Auxiliaries -- Epistemic Modal Adverbs -- Lexical Verbs as Epistemic Modals -- The Relationship of Epistemic Modality to Evidentiality -- Epistemic Modals Selected for Study -- Conclusion -- 5 Conversational Data Part I: Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Evidential versus Non-Evidential Uses of Epistemic Modals -- Overview of Evidentials in the Conversations -- Evidential Modal Functions Used Differently by the Two Groups of Speakers