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Leaders be Truthful Discussion

Leaders be Truthful Discussion

Q 1. Is employing deception with employees or firm stakeholders unethical?2. In what ways can deception pay off for executives? In what ways is it dangerous?3. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a management scholar (click here Preview the document to see article in this week's readings), has argued that leaders should be trained to be deceptive. Do you agree or disagree?

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It is obviously unethical for the employers to be deceptive with the employees or the stakeholders. However, most of the employer prefers to tell lie to the employees in order to motivate them. From the research, it has been observed that bogus and untruthful feedback have motivated the employees to do their best work. On the other hand, while dealing with the investors and suppliers, everything should be transparent, otherwise it may affect the business functions.