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Integrity in Organizations: Beyond Honesty and Conscientiousness
Academy of Management Review
  • Thomas E. Becker, University of Delaware
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1998
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1998.192969
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Abstract

In previous literature on employee selection, leadership, and organizational trust, scholars have identified integrity as a central aspect of work behavior. However, despite important contributions, their work often has confused integrity with other concepts (especially honesty and conscientiousness) and has treated integrity as either a morally neutral or relativistic phenomenon. The philosophy of “Objectivism” solves these problems by providing a definition of integrity that distinguishes the term from related concepts and by integrating integrity into an objective code of morality. I discuss the implications of this perspective for the study of integrity in organizations.

Citation / Publisher Attribution

Academy of Management Review, v. 23, no. 1, p. 154-161

Citation Information
Thomas E. Becker. "Integrity in Organizations: Beyond Honesty and Conscientiousness" Academy of Management Review Vol. 23 Iss. 1 (1998) p. 154 - 161
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/thomas-becker/17/