Maintaining Your Honesty

Benefits of telling the truth:

• You don’t have to remember what you said previously
• You don’t need to make excuses.
• You build a reputation for being reliable.
• All the above

Whether working on a team or a one-person project, don’t try to pass your workload off on others and don’t pretend to be working when you aren't.

• True 
• False

Borrowing" money from petty cash is okay if you pay it back quickly.

• Long as you pay it back
• Only if you get caught
• If you are responsible for the account.
• No it is not money for you to borrow it is for company expenses only.

Do everything you have to do and a little more if you want to be recognized as a reliable and well-rounded worker.
 Examples of taking full responsibility are"

• Deflecting  criticism.
•  blaming others for your own mistakes.
• Checking on how your work on a project is being carried through by the rest of your team.

 Details are a nuisance that make little difference in a product or service.

• True 
• False

 Manipulation can be subtle.

• True 
• False

Borrowing" money from petty cash is okay if you pay it back quickly.

• Long as you pay it back
• Only if you get caught
• If you are responsible for the account.
• No it is not money for you to borrow it is for company expenses only.

 If questioned about your work, you should

• provide a straight-forward answer
•  cover up as much as possible
• give a complicated answer that others won’t understand
• stick fairly close to the truth

Manipulation is

•  good business
• honest
• something everyone does

When a work product or procedure fails, it’s often because

• a detail was overlooked
•  too many people worked together
•  the instructions weren’t clear
• none of these choices