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From Hire to Liar: The Role of Deception in the Workplace,the latest book by David Shulman, associate professor of anthropology and sociology, will be the subject of discussion during the Lafayette Author Forum 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 20 in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library.
The book, which was released in December by Cornell University Press, explores how everyday lies in the workplace impact ethics, the administration of work, and productivity. It focuses not on extreme cases but on less obvious forms of deception, such as exaggerated resumes, crafting misleading accounting reports, making false claims to customers and coworkers, and goofing off while pretending to work. The book has received a number of positive mentions and reviews in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, The Invisible Hand Podcast (episode 46), the Honolulu Advertiser, and the Financial Times in London.
Forum members Kent Grayson, associate professor of marketing at Northwestern University, and Andrew Vinchur, associate professor and head of psychology, will highlight interesting points of From Hire to Liar and ask questions of Shulman. Afterward, the forum will open up to members of the audience. Grayson is an expert on issues of trust, authenticity, and deception in marketing and Vinchur’s research focuses on organizational psychology.
“The point [of the forum] is to let folks on campus know about new works and give them a brief introduction to them,” says forum organizer Josh Sanborn, associate professor of history.
Copies of From Hire to Liar will be available for purchase after the forum and Shulman will also be on hand to sign them.
This event is now the fourth in a series. In the fall semester, forums were held for Alix Ohlin, assistant professor of English, on her latest book Babylon and Other Stories; for Andrea Smith, assistant professor of anthropology and sociology, on Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe; and for D.C. Jackson, professor of history, on Big Dams of the New Deal Era.
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