If you find that an employee lied to you to get hired, yet he is doing an excellent job, do you confront him on the issue?

The correct answer in the Evil Empire of the corporate world is of course not. You file it away and keep it for the day when he is NOT doing so well, or until you need a favor from him, or until you need to cut your head count, or give him a raise (no chance). In Doug's world of fair and equitable treatment (I'm Doug), you confront him but you do so on humane terms.It depends on what the lie was about.

If it's a state requirement for carrying out duties like holding a particular license or certificate, you may have no choice but to remove him from that position. I would give the man a chance to explain himself, face to face. We would go into my office and shut the door, and I would say "Scott (wrong-doers are always named scott in my examples, it's therapy concerning a "scott" I used to know), something's come up that may force me to let you go.

Remember you told me you had your electricians license when I interviewed you for the job, now it turns out that you don't. How can you explain this?" You know what?

If a man with a family to feed who comes to work every day and does a good job tells me he was scared he wouldn't get hired, and he had a provisional but thought his permanent was coming through, I might suspend him or even put him on jobs not requiring a license until he was able to secure his license. I might even HELP him get the paperwork straightened out.As a manager in charge of hiring and firing, I have given several people second chances, and every time they have turned out to be my best workers. Oh I scare the crap out of them, because it IS serious, and I let them know that they OWE me, and that I expect them to have my back from now on, and I let them know for sure that this is their one and only chance to make this right, but yes, I have been known to help them keep their jobs.

Depending on the severity of the lie would determine my actions. I think everyone, to some degree, tells a little white lie when tyring to find work. Whether it be fudging your resume a little to make you look more appealing or exaggerating answers during the interview.As long as they are doing a great job then I think I would let is slide.

If it were severe like not telling the truth about your criminal past or saying you have a degree and don't then maybe I would consider more severe action. It's a tough call.

Absolutely. I would not fire him for it, but I would bring it to his attention and let him know it is not something that he should do. I would also invite him to come clean incase there is anything else you should know.

I won't fire them immediately because of doing a great job for my business, but I will definitely keep an eye on them and watch their moves. But my actions will be based of the severeness of the lie.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.