Developing True Business Integrity Throughout Your Organization

Values statements are helpful, but they’re not nearly enough. The “culture champions” — those organizations that make integrity a way of doing business — are the ones that stand apart from the rest.
The Value Of Integrity
How important is integrity in business? In its Culture 500 Index, MIT Sloan Management Review/Glassdoor includes integrity as one of the ‘Big 9’ values — those values that are most frequently cited and that “are linked to a variety of desirable outcomes like financial performance, innovation and employee engagement.”
And of those nine, “Some values matter more than others,” the researchers note. They single out integrity upfront as a critical factor for companies that made the list of the 21 Culture Champions in the index.
It’s a good bet that integrity is one of your organization’s values, too. Qualities like honesty and business integrity in some form are on nearly every corporate values statement. A whopping 57%