Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer A Resume Submission
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Engineer_A_Resume_Submission
Properties
Instance of
HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
Applied to
Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y
Patented products designed by six-member team at Employer X
Balancing with
Legitimate self-promotion in competitive employment market
Concrete expression
Engineer A's resume implies personal sole responsibility for patented products that were jointly designed by a six-member team, constituting a false assurance of individual design capability that misleads Employer Y about the actual scope of Engineer A's independent contributions
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Interpretation
Honesty in professional representations requires that engineers accurately portray not only what they did, but the collaborative context in which they did it; implying sole authorship of joint work is a form of dishonest self-representation even if no individual statement is literally false
Invoked by
Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer
Tension resolution
The principle of honesty overrides competitive self-promotion interests; engineers may highlight their contributions but must not imply sole authorship of collaborative work
Source Evidence
Source text
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
Text references
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
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty in Professional Representations Violated by Engineer A Resume Submission" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's resume submitted to Employer Y",
"Patented products designed by six-member team at Employer X" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Legitimate self-promotion in competitive employment market" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's resume implies personal sole responsibility for patented products that were jointly designed by a six-member team, constituting a false assurance of individual design capability that misleads Employer Y about the actual scope of Engineer A's independent contributions" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
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 "Honesty in professional representations requires that engineers accurately portray not only what they did, but the collaborative context in which they did it; implying sole authorship of joint work is a form of dishonest self-representation even if no individual statement is literally false" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Collaborative Credit Misrepresenting Job-Seeking Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty in Professional Representations" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The principle of honesty overrides competitive self-promotion interests; engineers may highlight their contributions but must not imply sole authorship of collaborative work" ;
proeth:textreferences "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" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.743364"^^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
2026-03-01T15:57:44.743364
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction