Integrity - The Foundation of Workable Organizations

Abstract:     
This presentation was given during Marist College Business School's Ethics Week. It makes the case that individual and collective integrity is a necessary condition for workability and efficiency in organizations. This paper is based on the Erhard, Jensen, and Zaffron paper entitled Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality", unpublished working paper, September 2007, available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=920625.

Keywords: integrity, trust, organizations, ethics

JEL Classification: M00

working papers series