Collaborative Credit Omission Misrepresentation Prohibition Applied to Engineer A Resume
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Collaborative_Credit_Omission_Misrepresentation_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Resume
Properties
Instance of
CollaborativeCreditOmissionMisrepresentationProhibitioninEmploymentSeeking
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CollaborativeCreditOmissionMisrepresentationProhibitioninEmploymentSeeking
Applied to
Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y
Five Staff Engineers Joint Design Team Members
Six-member team's jointly-designed patented products
Balancing with
Competitive employment-seeking interests
Contextual Resume Emphasis Permissibility Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A omits the five co-equal team members from his resume description of jointly-designed and jointly-patented products, creating the false impression of sole personal design responsibility for work that was explicitly credited to a six-member team, in order to enhance his employment prospects with Employer Y
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
This case is the paradigmatic instance of collaborative credit omission misrepresentation: Engineer A was one of six co-equal contributors, was explicitly credited as such, and yet presented the work as his personal individual achievement; the principle requires that he identify the team context and his role within it
Invoked by
Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Tension resolution
The Contextual Resume Emphasis Permissibility Principle does not extend to omitting co-equal contributors entirely; Engineer A's conduct is not permissible emphasis but prohibited misrepresentation of collaborative credit
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products
Text references
Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products
Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products which were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team
This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products
TTL
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case135:Collaborative_Credit_Omission_Misrepresentation_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Resume a proeth:CollaborativeCreditOmissionMisrepresentationProhibitioninEmploymentSeeking,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Collaborative Credit Omission Misrepresentation Prohibition Applied to Engineer A Resume" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y",
"Five Staff Engineers Joint Design Team Members",
"Six-member team's jointly-designed patented products" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive employment-seeking interests",
"Contextual Resume Emphasis Permissibility Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A omits the five co-equal team members from his resume description of jointly-designed and jointly-patented products, creating the false impression of sole personal design responsibility for work that was explicitly credited to a six-member team, in order to enhance his employment prospects with Employer Y" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "135" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "This case is the paradigmatic instance of collaborative credit omission misrepresentation: Engineer A was one of six co-equal contributors, was explicitly credited as such, and yet presented the work as his personal individual achievement; the principle requires that he identify the team context and his role within it" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Collaborative Credit Omission Misrepresentation Prohibition in Employment Seeking" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Contextual Resume Emphasis Permissibility Principle does not extend to omitting co-equal contributors entirely; Engineer A's conduct is not permissible emphasis but prohibited misrepresentation of collaborative credit" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A along with five other engineers in his team participated in and was credited with the design of a series of patented products",
"Engineer A submits his resume to Employer Y and on it implies that he personally was responsible for the design of products which were actually designed through a joint effort of the members of the team",
"This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.746790"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 135 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
135
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00
First case
135
Generated
2026-03-01T15:41:30.244787+00:00
Attributed to
Case 135 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T15:57:44.746790
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction