The Authors of the chapter “Stressing the central role of integrity for successful firms”, taking the existing literature regarding integrity and humanistic management into consideration, have the aim to understand if it is possible build a model that can provide answers to the following questions: In what ways should firms act to respect the value of integrity? What kind of tools should be used? What key aspects should be exploited? As Aristotle stated, humans are, by nature, “social animal” and this natural tendency is completely expressed inside organizations, that may be defined as a community of human beings that work together to reach specific goals. This definition means that an organization’s essential element is the “relationships” among human beings that must work “together”. If relationships constitute the basic element, then clearly the “central” element of each organization are the human beings to which the indicated relationships refer. Clearly, integrity may not be pursued by an organization without taking the centrality of humans into consideration. The results of the Authors research highlight that the concept of integrity has become so important that it crosses the boundaries of the organization because it is necessary take into consideration both the internal (organization) and external (context) values to highlight the holistic meaning of integrity. This consideration is exactly the concept of sustainable integrity that the Authors propose and that clearly emerge from the analyzed companies.

STRESSING THE CENTRAL ROLE OF INTEGRITY FOR SUCCESSFUL FIRMS

GIUDICI, ERNESTINA;CABONI, FEDERICA;
2013-01-01

Abstract

The Authors of the chapter “Stressing the central role of integrity for successful firms”, taking the existing literature regarding integrity and humanistic management into consideration, have the aim to understand if it is possible build a model that can provide answers to the following questions: In what ways should firms act to respect the value of integrity? What kind of tools should be used? What key aspects should be exploited? As Aristotle stated, humans are, by nature, “social animal” and this natural tendency is completely expressed inside organizations, that may be defined as a community of human beings that work together to reach specific goals. This definition means that an organization’s essential element is the “relationships” among human beings that must work “together”. If relationships constitute the basic element, then clearly the “central” element of each organization are the human beings to which the indicated relationships refer. Clearly, integrity may not be pursued by an organization without taking the centrality of humans into consideration. The results of the Authors research highlight that the concept of integrity has become so important that it crosses the boundaries of the organization because it is necessary take into consideration both the internal (organization) and external (context) values to highlight the holistic meaning of integrity. This consideration is exactly the concept of sustainable integrity that the Authors propose and that clearly emerge from the analyzed companies.
2013
978-1-137-28034-3
INTEGRITY; SUSTAINABLE INTEGRITY; CENTRAL ROLE OF HUMAN BEINGS
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