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Integrity In Practice

What is Integrity? What is business Ethics?

We begin by answering head-on the questions “What is Integrity?" and “What is Business Ethics?"

We do this in a way that is analytic but which we hope is easily understood by the majority of our audience.

Whilst we believe that most people have an intuitive sense of right and wrong, it is clear that an analytic understanding of integrity is no longer a significant part of our educational or cultural curriculum.

This makes integrity difficult to implement in practice as people try to resolve issues of principle and profit in their working lives.

Indeed, some people even fail to recognize that they are facing an ethical decision.

We also believe that the conflict between people’s intuitive sense of doing the right thing and the practical demands of their job generates a lot of the stress felt by many.

The Integrity Covenant

Are you working through things or are things working through you?

It is easy to perform when everything is going well. Rules tell us what is right and wrong.  

Rules require duty and obedience. These are duly rewarded when the whole is progressing as it should in an orderly fashion. Life is predictable. It is all good.

But everything doesn’t always go well. Rules no longer work.

Duty and obedience are rewarded with injustice. Chaos and confusion rule.  Life is no longer predictable. It is not so good.   

What to do?

Winston Churchill offered this advice

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."