Not only is workplace integrity beneficial to businesses, but it is also beneficial to the individual. By showing that you are an honest and dependable person, you'll gain respect and trust from your peers and managers, which can also play a big part in your career growth, progression and overall success.
When we have integrity, we gain the trust of our leaders, our colleagues and our team. We're dependable, and, when we hold ourselves accountable for our actions, we become role models for others to follow. All of this, in turn, directly impacts our success in life.
Promotes better leaders Companies that hold their managers up to high ethical standards promote strong and ethical leaders. Leaders with integrity understand that their actions, words, and decisions shape the company's values, culture, and morale.
A lack of ethics has a negative effect on employee performance. In some cases, employees are so concerned with getting ahead and making money that they ignore procedures and protocol. This can lead to additional paperwork and careless errors that result in the task having to be completed again.
The lack of integrity leads to distrust. I have noticed that distrust does not exhibit itself freely. When you question someone's trustworthiness, they will not retort back by accepting that you should not trust them. The dishonesty in people is mostly hidden.
Integrity makes you secure and confident in who you are as a person. When you don't have integrity, there's nothing to help your self-esteem since you're not honest about your morals and values. Confidence comes from being secure in who you are and reflecting on that to others.
Integrity leads to the decision to do the right thing by co-workers, customers, and stakeholders alike. It also keeps our employees honest – after all, no one will give their business to an organisation that doesn't keep their word. An individual who values integrity is: Dependable.
Integrity in business enhances your reputation - which can help attract and retain customers, engender employee loyalty and become a more attractive investment proposition. Business integrity is strongly correlated with financial performance.
A person of integrity will consistently demonstrate good character by being free of corruption and hypocrisy. Integrity is revealed when people act virtuously regardless of circumstance or consequences. This often requires moral courage. Indeed, integrity is the critical connection between ethics and moral action.
Unethical behaviour has serious consequences for both individuals and organizations. You can lose your job and reputation, organizations can lose their credibility, general morale and productivity can decline, or the behaviour can result in significant fines and/or financial loss.
Unethical behaviour can lower employee productivity by interfering with their morale. Employees who witness unethical behaviour lose motivation to work and can result in absenteeism or worse, they may commit similar unethical behaviours perceiving this to be normal.
Ethics are usually company written for all employees as well as employers to abide to. Besides employees, who else is affected when an organization acts unethically? When an employer acts unethical, it effects the employee, the employer and the customer.