Meric Craig Bloch (mbloch@shrinenet.org) is Corporate Director, Investigations for Shriners Hospitals for Children. He has conducted over 400 workplace investigations of fraud and serious workplace misconduct, and is an author and a frequent public speaker on the workplace investigations process.

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Lying is not a natural human behavior. It must be learned. Liars lie for many reasons. Some know that lying works and doing so absolves them of the consequences of their misconduct. Other people lie because of fear. But admitting misconduct involves significant embarrassment. Consequently, there are enormous pressures to hide the truth, minimize the wrongdoing, and lie.