Omission Materiality Threshold Applied to Team Composition Omission
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/135#Omission_Materiality_Threshold_Applied_to_Team_Composition_Omission
Properties
Instance of
OmissionMaterialityThresholdinProfessionalDisclosure
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#OmissionMaterialityThresholdinProfessionalDisclosure
Applied to
Employer Y's hiring decision based on Engineer A's resume
Balancing with
Engineer's right to present qualifications favorably
Concrete expression
Engineer A's omission of the five co-equal team members from his resume description of the patented products is a material omission because the team composition and Engineer A's individual role within it are directly relevant to Employer Y's assessment of Engineer A's independent design capabilities and hiring decision
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
The omission of co-equal team members' contributions crosses the materiality threshold because a prospective employer's assessment of an engineer's individual design capability — the very basis for the hiring decision — would be materially affected by knowing that the listed achievements were collaborative rather than individual; this is not a non-material omission
Invoked by
Prospective Employer Resume-Deceived Engineering Hiring Firm
Tension resolution
When omitted information is material to the hiring decision, the materiality threshold is crossed and disclosure is ethically required regardless of the engineer's competitive interests
Source Evidence
Source text
This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products
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
This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products
TTL
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case135:Omission_Materiality_Threshold_Applied_to_Team_Composition_Omission a proeth:OmissionMaterialityThresholdinProfessionalDisclosure,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Omission Materiality Threshold Applied to Team Composition Omission" ;
proeth:appliedto "Employer Y's hiring decision based on Engineer A's resume" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Engineer's right to present qualifications favorably" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's omission of the five co-equal team members from his resume description of the patented products is a material omission because the team composition and Engineer A's individual role within it are directly relevant to Employer Y's assessment of Engineer A's independent design capabilities and hiring decision" ;
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 "The omission of co-equal team members' contributions crosses the materiality threshold because a prospective employer's assessment of an engineer's individual design capability — the very basis for the hiring decision — would be materially affected by knowing that the listed achievements were collaborative rather than individual; this is not a non-material omission" ;
proeth:invokedby "Prospective Employer Resume-Deceived Engineering Hiring Firm" ;
proeth:principleclass "Omission Materiality Threshold in Professional Disclosure" ;
proeth:sourcetext "This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "When omitted information is material to the hiring decision, the materiality threshold is crossed and disclosure is ethically required regardless of the engineer's competitive interests" ;
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",
"This team of six was responsible for the design of certain products" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 135 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T15:57:44.744202"^^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
2026-03-01T15:57:44.744202
Generated by
ProEthica Case 135 Extraction