The time attendance system in the production division at MM, an automobile manufacturing company, was malfunctioning. Consequently, Greg Hill, one of the front-level managers, sent it for repair

In the meantime, he placed a register where all workers of the production division had to provide their time of entry and exit from office. At the end of the week, when looking through the time logs, he had certain concerns about a group of employees. In the next week, he personally tracked the time this group of employees spent working and realized that they were reporting a greater number of working hours than they actually worked. This group engaged in a barrier to communication called ________.
A) selective perception
B) filtering
C) silence
D) communication apprehension
E) lying

E
Explanation: E) Lying is a barrier to communication that involves an outright misrepresentation of information. The defaulting group of employees described here were deliberately misrepresenting the hours they worked and thus, were lying.