INTEGRITY IN ORGANIZATIONS - BEYOND HONESTY AND CONSCIENTIOUSNESS

In previous literature on employee selection, leadership, and organiza tional trust, scholars have identified integrity as a central aspect o f work behavior. However, despite important contributions, their work often has confused integrity with other concepts (especially honesty a nd conscientiousness) and has treated integrity as either a morally ne utral or relativistic phenomenon. The philosophy of ''Objectivism'' so lves these problems by providing a definition of integrity that distin guishes the term from related concepts and by integrating integrity in to an objective code of morality. I discuss the implications of this p erspective for the study of integrity in organizations.