Organizational Integrity
“We look for three things when we hire people. We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity. And if they don’t have the latter, the first two will kill you.” Warren Buffet has given that speech numerous times to MBA students in many fine colleges across the United States. His focus on integrity must be justified considering he’s Warren Buffet after all. However, the idea of integrity being one of the most important elements of personal effectiveness in an organization might be up for debate. In this paper, I will attempt to prove that I believe it is.
According to Robert Young, “Integrity is defined as a combination of attributes and actions that makes individuals and organizations
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We might think an individual sought personal or political agendas that elicited such behavior or corruption, and if compliance instead of compromise was had the behavior would not have happened. More often than not the organization never had an association with building culture, molding attitude, and developing individual guidance to do the right thing (Kayes, Stirling, & Nielsen, 2007).
One of the ways an individual and an organization could develop a better solution to the integrity issues plaguing both would be the idea of self-management. Self-management is a self-awareness tool developed to be a control mechanism to hone ones’ emotional triggers. Self-management is not a way to restrict ideas or impulses, but a way to be transparent in a gambit of situations and varying reasons. The big indicator of successful self-management is when things begin to get difficult; instead of complaining about a situation, a way to make it work is often sought after (Shuck & Herd,
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