Paper Info
Title
Making it Hard to Lie: Cultural Determinants of Media Choice for Deception
Abstract
In today's business environment, deception is commonplace. In hiring situations, successful deception by job candidates can lead to a poor fit between the candidate's abilities and the requirements of the job, and this can lead to poor performance. This study seeks to inhibit successful deception by job candidates by suggesting that managers limit communication with job applicants to the media that the applicant is least comfortable using for deception. In today's multicultural business environment, job applicants can come from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Taking this into account, the current study seeks to predict media choice for deception based on a subject's espoused national culture. A scenario-based media choice task was given to subjects in the United States and China, and the results indicate that espoused collectivism, power distance and masculinity influence media choice. Implications for research and practitioners are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/HICSS.2009.298
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
cultural determinants,current study,scenario-based media choice task,job applicant,masculinity influence media choice,business environment,espoused collectivism,espoused national culture,successful deception,job candidate,media choice
Media choice,Job analysis,Computer science,Masculinity,Public relations,Deception,Multiculturalism,Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory,Collectivism,Job attitude
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christopher P. Furner1737.92
Joey F. George21925397.91