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e and organizational performance (Jambawo, 2018, p. 1000). However, some scholars have suggested that ethical leadership characteristics (e.g., honesty and integrity) are observable across a typology of leadership styles (Toor & Ofori, 2009). Emerging literature supports conceptualizing ethical leadership as a behavior...
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positive forms of leadership (Kacmar et al., 2013, p. 582). Under the umbrella of positive leadership styles, Kacmar et al. (2013) include the following leadership styles: authentic, spiritual, and transformational (p. 582). Scholars have proposed that ethics is a component of each form of positive leadership; however,...
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urs on a continuum (Kacmar et al., 2013, p. 582). Thus, ethical leadership as a component rather than a leadership style creates a contradiction in ethics research. The Concepts of Unethical Leadership and Unethical Behavior The antithesis of ethical leadership is a domain of leadership and ethics that is seldom studie...
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made by organizational leaders that are legal and…violate moral standards, and those that impose processes and structures that promote unethical conduct by followers” (p. 588). Discussing the outcomes of unethical leadership, Brown and Mitchell (2010) state that “unethical leader behavior costs U.S. corporations billio...
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associated with actionable claims” (pp. 588-589). The adverse outcomes of unethical leadership underscore the urgent need for ethical leadership in the workforce. Employees will benefit from ethical leadership and organizational culture; such constructs have been linked to increased job satisfaction and occupational we...
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sed to “wrong” (Kinicki & Williams, 2016, p. 78). Ethical behavior is often characterized by actions and decisions that are morally sound (e.g., honesty and integrity). In contrast, unethical behavior usually depicts actions and decisions that are deemed immoral (e.g., manipulation and theft). However, Umphress, Bingha...
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viors conducted by employees to benefit the organization (p. 769) potentially. Unethical pro-organizational behavior is described as “acts that are either illegal or morally unacceptable to the larger community” (Umphress et al., 2010, p. 770). In-between ethical and unethical behavior are variances, suggesting that bo...
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4) assert that “…behavior in organizations may be viewed as ranging from highly ethical to highly unethical, much of the organizational research has focused either on the ethical or the unethical ends of the continuum” (p. 284). Additional research is needed to create a typology of ethical and unethical behavior to unc...
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unethical behavior negatively influence employees’ attitudes and psychological well-being (Brown & Mitchell, 2010, p. 598). As reported by Sanders, Wisse, Yperen, and Rus (2018), “…leaders’ unethical behavior is associated with negative outcomes, such as employee workplace deviance, whereas leaders’ ethical behavior is...
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anizational commitment” (p. 631). Umphress et al. (2010) warn that when a culture is formed, leaders must encourage “…ethical behavior by ensuring that their behavior corresponds to ethical standards and reward only ethical behavior for their employees” (p. 778). Given the apparent impact of leaders’ behavior, understa...
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l to promoting ethical behavior in the workplace. Enron and WorldCom’s questionable practices and violations reflect poor, moral decision-making and unethical leadership. Corporate executives and leaders who lack ethical behavior violate fiduciary and social responsibilities. The absence of oversight and a lack of ethi...
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g businesses, and functional social institutions. While instrumental in minimizing unethical conduct, legislative action is not an end-all solution; corporate leaders must exude ethical leadership and foster an ethical culture with an ethics and compliance program, ultimately creating an “ethical organization” or “ethi...
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s that define what is considered right or wrong within the organization” (Parboteeah & Kapp, 2008, p. 517). Given the mounting scrutiny placed on the actions and conduct of leaders and managers, organizations can diminish the consequences of immorality and realize the value of ethical leadership and ethical organization...
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d honest treatment by leaders and managers through desired attitudes and behaviors (Moon & Jung, 2018, p. 269). Conversely, employees’ perception of unethical behavior could elicit responses of negative attitudes and counterproductive work behaviors toward the managers and organization (Moon & Jung, 2018, p. 269). A le...
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terest (Ferrell et al., 2013, p. 31). Bedi et al. (2016) propose that ethical leadership is positively associated with followers’ psychological well-being because of the critical role leaders play in shaping the work experience of followers (p. 521). Therefore, a leader’s behavior and an organization’s culture play a s...
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ccupational well-being and job satisfaction, corporate leaders must recognize the value of promoting ethicality and positive ethical behavior in the workplace (Perez, 2018, p. 40). By adhering to ethical standards, leaders and managers can role-model the ethical conduct employees are more likely to follow (McShane & Vo...
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ctions they want to promote and reward” (p. 519). Ethical leaders express their positive characteristics and influence their employees by actively managing and modeling ethical conduct (Mayer et al., 2010, p. 8). According to Mayer et al. (2010), “Leaders set the ethical tone for an organization by enacting practices, ...
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endeavor to live above the common level of life. M ake us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be content with a half truth when the whole can be won. E ndow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, that scorns to compromise with vice and injustice and kno...
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omatically—when labor is invisible—empathy fades. Responsibility feels optional because consequence feels distant. I sometimes call this outsourced conscience. It’s the psychological habit of substituting payment for participation. We believe that if we’ve paid dues, rent, or taxes, we’ve fulfilled our social contract....
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t community—real community—doesn’t work that way. It depends on visible acts of care that remind people they’re part of something shared. The moment those acts disappear, the commons starts to decay, not physically first, but psychologically. And yet, within the same environments, there are always a few people who resi...
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The Psychology of the Commons: Why Some People Care When No One’s Watching Nov 12 Written By RJ Starr Transcript There’s a small room just off the service hallway in my building. Nothing remarkable about it—bare walls, two bins, a narrow chute, the faint smell of detergent and cardboard. It’s where we take our trash an...
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inating me. Every week, I notice the same divide. A few of us—maybe two or three residents in total—break down our cardboard boxes, stack them neatly against the wall, and make sure our recyclables are in the right bin. We slide our trash bags down the chute and wipe up whatever might have spilled. The rest? They walk ...
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No one’s watching. No cameras. No confrontation. Just a private moment with public consequences. What’s interesting is who these people are. This isn’t a struggling neighborhood; it’s a fairly comfortable, upper-middle-class building full of professionals—people who, by any reasonable measure, know better. Many have ad...
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action. And that’s the real psychological puzzle. Why do some people act as if the rules still apply when no one’s watching, while others behave as though accountability disappears the moment the door closes? The trash room is only the stage. The same divide shows up on the road—drivers who obey the speed limit on an e...
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e pot or walks away from the jammed printer, versus the person who takes 60 seconds to brew a new pot or fix the machine for the next person. It shows up in daily courtesies—whether someone holds the door or lets it slam because they’re two steps ahead. These moments may seem trivial, but together they tell us somethin...
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responsibilities that hold social life together. When a person leaves the trash on the floor, they’re not just skipping a chore. They’re silently announcing how they perceive their relationship to everyone else. For some, that relationship is reciprocal: “I’m part of this system, so I’ll care for it.” For others, it’s ...
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’t depend primarily on knowledge or intelligence. It depends on internalization. Lawrence Kohlberg’s stages of moral development describe this gradient. At the lowest level, people act to avoid punishment or gain reward. At higher levels, they act according to social approval—doing what’s acceptable in the eyes of othe...
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authored principles even when no one is watching. That’s the difference between following rules and owning them. When responsibility becomes internal, behavior stabilizes across settings. The person who sorts their recycling, who keeps their speed steady, who shows up for work even when it’s hard—those aren’t separate ...
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itnesses. So the trash room becomes a laboratory. It shows us who we are when our social masks fall away. And that’s where our exploration begins—because this difference, between those who care for the commons and those who exploit it, isn’t random. It grows from a mix of psychological forces: how we learned responsibi...
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bility, we usually frame it in moral or social terms. We think of it as character, upbringing, or decency. But psychologically, responsibility is something more precise—it’s a regulatory function . It’s how we manage the tension between immediate comfort and long-term consequence. Some people have developed what we cou...
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se. For them, the right thing is not situational. It’s simply how they move through the world. Others rely on external governance—rules, supervisors, visible reward, or threat of punishment. When those disappear, their behavior often drifts. It isn’t necessarily malicious; it’s adaptive. They’ve learned that morality i...
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he system is rigged and there's no point in trying. Psychology has a language for this divide. Julian Rotter called it the locus of control—the degree to which people see themselves as agents of their own actions. An internal locus of control gives rise to accountability: I influence outcomes; my behavior matters. An e...
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nt doesn’t only shape behavior—it shapes empathy. When a person sees their actions as disconnected from impact, they lose the felt sense of belonging to a shared system. The trash room doesn’t feel like “ours.” The road doesn’t feel like a collective space. The workplace becomes a transaction, not a community. This los...
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silence the part of themselves that knows better. They rationalize: It’s not my job, I’m in a hurry, they pay someone for this. Once that self-justification takes hold, conscience goes quiet. The truth is that conscience isn’t a light switch—it’s a muscle. If you stop using it, it weakens. And this is where emotional r...
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nk of the person who leaves the empty coffee pot. On the surface, it seems like simple laziness. But underneath, it's often a failure of that same self-regulation. It's an inability to tolerate the small friction of a 60-second task that benefits others. Resisting that urge to pass the buck, to make your convenience so...
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use they're immune to annoyance; they do so because they can regulate it. Their identity isn’t contingent on 'whose job it is'—it's contingent on being a person who contributes. The same mechanism explains why some drivers maintain the speed limit alone on the road. It’s not about fear of tickets; it’s about internaliz...
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s how consistent this pattern is across contexts. Whether it’s a trash room, a highway, or a workplace, the underlying variable is the same: Is morality a social performance, or is it a form of self-regulation? Most people live somewhere in between. They behave well when the social mirror is present and drift when it’s...
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tion. Their behavior is not an act of compliance. It’s an act of coherence. The Social Mirror If the first two segments describe what happens inside the individual, this one looks outward—at what happens when thousands of individuals carry that same pattern into shared life. Because once you start noticing it, you see ...
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empty coffee cups left for someone else to rinse. None of it is catastrophic, but together it reflects something larger: a slow erosion of the psychological bond between self and society. There’s a concept in sociology called the tragedy of the commons. It describes what happens when individual self-interest depletes a...
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sn’t begin in economics. It begins in perception. When people stop feeling like stakeholders, they stop behaving like caretakers. In modern life, that detachment is easy to maintain. We live inside systems designed to absorb our neglect. Trash disappears down a chute. Water keeps flowing. The building has staff. The ci...
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e that was built to serve us now anesthetizes us. To be clear, this isn't always a failure of character; sometimes it's a failure of capacity. Modern life depletes our emotional and cognitive resources. The single parent with a sick child and a looming deadline might not have the executive functioning left to break dow...
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nals that 'outsourced conscience' has taken root. And the more insulated we are by comfort and affluence, the stronger that anesthesia becomes. That’s the paradox of upper-middle-class environments like mine. The residents are educated, informed, often articulate about social issues. Yet the very privileges that make t...
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ws leaves in. They keep their noise low at night. They return the shopping cart, not because someone might scold them if they don’t, but because it aligns with how they understand themselves. These people form what we might call the conscientious minority—a small group who hold the fabric together by doing unglamorous,...
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th that frustration is a kind of quiet integrity. They refuse to externalize conscience because they’ve learned that if you wait for others to care, you’ll be waiting forever. Psychologically, this minority operates from self-authored morality. Their standards aren’t dictated by surveillance or social approval. They co...
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he systems around them, responsibility collapses. That’s why workplace disengagement, civic apathy, and neglect of shared spaces often rise together—they’re symptoms of the same emotional disconnection. There’s also a feedback loop at play. When we see others neglecting responsibility, our own motivation declines. Soci...
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clean space invites care; a messy one excuses it. Each act, responsible or not, becomes contagious. So the social mirror cuts both ways. We take cues from one another. We either reflect conscientiousness or amplify decay. In that sense, every shared space—whether a building, a company, or a community—becomes a test of ...
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ent, or whether self-interest will hollow it out. And maybe that’s why these small everyday examples matter so much. They’re practice grounds for civilization itself. Moral Identity and the Future of the Commons In the end, all of this—the trash room, the road, the workplace—isn’t really about rules. It’s about who we ...
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at’s shared mirrors how we treat what’s internal. When we neglect the commons, we externalize disconnection. We say, without words, “I don’t see myself in this.” When we care for it, we reaffirm continuity between inner and outer life. We say, “This matters because I matter within it.” That’s the quiet psychological tr...
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nce is a muscle, this coherence can be practiced. It starts with simply noticing these moments—the shopping cart, the empty coffee pot, the piece of trash on the floor. Then, we can practice 'micro-acts' of coherence. We can choose to frame breaking down the box not as a chore, but as an act of identity—a small, privat...
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to inhabit. This is how the muscle gets stronger. I often think about how much of modern life depends on invisibility. We rarely see who cleans, who repairs, who manages the small infrastructures that let us live comfortably. Our systems are efficient, but they’re also emotionally anesthetizing. We’ve built an entire c...
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care, follows through on a commitment—they restore a fragment of connection. They remind the system that it still has a soul. The future of the commons, in every sense, depends on enough people choosing coherence over convenience. Not out of guilt, but out of alignment. So maybe the question isn’t, Who left this mess? ...
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gs, quietly shapes the kind of society we become. When no one’s watching, and you still choose to care, you’re not just maintaining order. You’re preserving something human—the invisible thread between self and system, between individual conscience and collective life. And that, more than any policy or rule, is what ke...
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Campus News Community ‘Choose a harder right instead of an easier wrong’: Retired Col. Gary Steele speaks on being a trailblazer at US Military Academy Kevin Faigle 3 min read March 2, 2023 Retired Col. Gary Steele didn’t set out to be a pioneer at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, but by the ...
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to ever to play varsity football for the academy. He was also the first Black student-athlete to ever receive a varsity letter in football, but it wasn’t until after graduation that it struck a chord with him. “At the time, I didn’t put any real significance to it because I was just a member of the team,” said Steele. ...
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cadets in and playing football, I realized that wow, maybe there was some significance to it.” Recently, Steele spoke to a group of about 50 people at the Jaguar Student Activities Center not only about football, but also life in the military and how some of the practices he learned can be applied to everyone. The even...
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to cap off a celebration of Black History Month. Steele graduated from West Point in 1970, a time when there were very few Black cadets attending the academy. He said one of the people who helped him get through was his brother, a student a year ahead of him. He credits his strong foundation and building blocks that we...
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e influential people in their lives. Retired Col. Gary Steele speaks during a presentation with a photo of H. Minton Francis in the background. {Michael Holahan/Augusta University] “When was the last time you acknowledged that to them?” Steele asked those in attendance. “Remember whose shoulders you are standing on bec...
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ou couldn’t see without them.” Steele almost didn’t graduate though. After failing two classes his junior year, he was given a choice to repeat those classes or find a different college to attend. He told his parents he was seriously thinking about going to Penn State, where he had a football scholarship offer. His par...
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Steele went back, took the two classes again and eventually graduated. “I finally threw my hat up in the air and graduated. It took me five tough years. I did not endure what Milton Francis endured, but there were challenges.” Retired Col. Gary Steele speaks during a presentation on the Augusta University Summerville C...
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tability, knowing that would pave the way for his successes. He also still lives by words out of the West Point cadet prayer: “Make us choose a harder right instead of the easier wrong and never be content with a half-truth when the whole truth can be one.” “I try my darndest to live by this because it keeps me straigh...
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t times as an individual, but when coming together, you can be a force. “When people come together and work together, there’s a lot more solidarity, there’s a lot more power there. You get a lot more done. So Black History Month is a good thing, but American history month for me is even better.” Like Like Love Haha Wow...
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four commitments and take action where necessary. Together, we can change the world! Denis is an Executive Director for the John Maxwell Group and is a certified leadership coach, trainer, keynote speaker, and DISC Behaviorial Consultant. Denis is a senior safety professional and a strong, passionate influential person...
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The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” Dwight D. Eisenhower You don’t need to read much to realize that leaders focus intensely on their reputations. When companie...
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rate integrity as the essential leadership trait. A more significant percentage of employees considered it the top quality of an executive and people managers. Having integrity generates respect and trust. People want to work for ethical people; we all know that if our leader acts with integrity, they will treat them r...
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ngthen the business and increase employee morale. In addition, companies with strong, ethical leadership teams enhance their ability to attract investors, customers, and talented people. However, integrity begins at the top and works its way through the organization to create a culture that values integrity. Leaders ne...
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gies help create their actual values and culture. How we approach actions and what we do and say is particularly crucial for leaders. We must be people of integrity . Everyone is watching how we respond to business and personal situations. We either draw people to our influence, or we repel them with our lack of integr...
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YOUR integrity. “Integrity is telling the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people” Spencer Johnson To accomplish this, you must make these four commitments; Speak the truth plainly . Be honest, and treat people well. Don’t exaggerate successes, and be quick to praise others’ contributions. As a leader, ...
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aling information. Half the truth is a whole lie. There are situations we need to have hard yet honest conversations with our employees. If we back from these conversations, we can’t say we are a leader of integrity. I am consistently tempted to hold back the truth because I don’t want to deal with the consequences. Bu...
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y leaves lasting scars. Use the truth tactfully . To build a culture of integrity, behaviors change faster when people know the truth is wrapped in care. Truth without love is always seen as an attack. Without showing care, all of our actions mean nothing. If you don’t care for the people you’re sharing the truth with,...
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g off your chest, you’re not speaking in respect. Just because you’re willing to share the truth doesn’t mean the other person is ready to hear it. The solution to any conflict is not deception; it’s tact. You can use your words to heal or hurt, make a point or make an enemy. Leaders also need to hold themselves accoun...
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egrity isn’t being honest 80 percent of the time. Partial honesty is dishonesty. Integrity is a requirement for leadership because all leadership is based on trust. If people don’t trust you, you can’t lead them. Don’t be afraid to be vulnerable with your staff. If you make a mistake, say so and do all you can to fix i...
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m if you cannot admit fault when things go wrong. SO WHAT, NOW WHAT “The time is always right to do what is right” Martin Luther King As I constantly think about increasing my leadership and influence, I try to maintain strong integrity. Am I always successful? NO, but my heart desires to lead people with integrity, in...
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ng practical and relevant influencing techniques. His unique, passionate, and emotionally driven style resonates with many, creating a desire to become an effective leader. You can contact Denis at dbaker@leaderinfluence.net for information on coaching, leadership, team and culture training, DISC Behavioral consulting,...
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Defining What Ethics and Integrity Mean to You in a Changing Public Sector Mar 11 Written By Ingrid Bergmann In today’s rapidly shifting public service environment, Canadian public servants must navigate a complex landscape filled with ethical dilemmas, evolving norms, and increasing scrutiny. With rising public skepti...
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d integrity in leadership has never been greater. Public servants must operate in an era of permanent campaigning, growing political polarization, growing concerns about governmental transparency, and the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and big data. These forces shape the world where ethics and integrity ar...
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sk: Is this ethical? Should I take a closer look? Can I defend this in the court of public opinion? The higher you rise in leadership, the more frequently these questions arise. While some decisions will be clear-cut, many will require careful judgment—and they should never be made in isolation. As an Executive Coach, ...
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houghts on strengthening your ethical leadership. Defining Ethics and Integrity To ground this discussion, let’s borrow some definitions from the BC Office of the Auditor General: Ethics is fundamental to good governance. Ethics are moral principles that inform and guide individual and group behaviour. Ethical behaviou...
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do the right thing—even when no one is watching. Integrity means putting the interests of the public and public service above personal interests and avoiding conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived. Impartiality requires providing advice and recommendations free from preference or prejudice. Building Your Ethi...
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