Integrity and leadership : clearing the conceptual confusion
By: PALANSKI, Michael E
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Contributor(s): YAMMARINO, Francis J.
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ArticlePublisher: Oxford, UK : Elsevier, June 2007European Management Journal 25, 3, p. 171-184Abstract: Integrity is frequently used in management literature as a normative descriptor, especially with regard to leadership. The study of integrity, however, suffers from three significant problems: too many definitions, too little theory, and too few rigorous empirical studies. The purpose of this article is to attempt to address the first problem by (1) presenting a review of the definitions and uses of integrity in the management literature and (2) proposing a specific conceptualization of integrity (i.e., the consistency of an acting entitys words and actions) based on a virtue-ethics framework
Integrity is frequently used in management literature as a normative descriptor, especially with regard to leadership. The study of integrity, however, suffers from three significant problems: too many definitions, too little theory, and too few rigorous empirical studies. The purpose of this article is to attempt to address the first problem by (1) presenting a review of the definitions and uses of integrity in the management literature and (2) proposing a specific conceptualization of integrity (i.e., the consistency of an acting entitys words and actions) based on a virtue-ethics framework
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