Survey Questions: Integrity
Definition: Integrity is the foundation of a strong organization, where leaders foster a culture of trust, ethical behavior, and accountability, ensuring transparency and fairness while leading by example. Employees demonstrate honesty, professionalism, and consistency in principles, keeping commitments, respecting others, and supporting their colleagues in maintaining ethical standards. Through self-regulation, confidentiality, and admitting mistakes, organizations uphold their core values, strengthening interpersonal relationships and promoting a workplace where integrity drives success.
Integrity as a Core ValueIntegrity as a Core Value focuses on embedding integrity as a fundamental principle that guides behavior and decision-making within the organization. This dimension highlights fostering a culture of ethical conduct, upholding professionalism and mutual respect, and ensuring that integrity is consistently demonstrated in leadership. It prioritizes long-term trust and organizational ethics, making integrity a foundational element in building relationships and driving success.
- The company creates a culture where employees feel the need to maintain high standards of integrity.
- The supervisor demonstrates consistency in actions and values based on core principles and beliefs.
- Team members foster a culture of professionalism and mutual respect.
- My manager views integrity as a foundational value to build strong interpersonal relationships.
- Leaders foster a culture of trust and ethical behavior throughout the organization.
- My team leader embodies the principles of integrity, dedication, and excellence, by continually striving to make a positive impact and drive the success of the team and organization.
- My manager recognizes integrity as a core value of the organization.
- Our department promotes a corporate culture of high-integrity.
- My manager builds respect and trust by setting high standards of integrity.
- The project lead demonstrates a commitment to corporate and personal values.
- The members of my team support the company's mission and value to become a reliable and trustworthy team.
TrustworthyTrustworthy focuses on earning and maintaining the trust of others through consistent integrity and reliability. This dimension highlights building strong relationships, fostering trust-based environments, demonstrating transparency, and ensuring that stakeholders and employees have confidence in a leaderââ¬â¢s actions. It prioritizes long-term credibility and dependability, making sure individuals and teams can rely on each other without doubt.
- My manager maintains strong trust-based relationships by being open, honest and transparent.
- Our department fosters an environment built upon trust.
- Supervisors build and maintain trust and good working relationships.
- My manager creates a foundation of trust and respect that drives long-term success and positive relationships.
- My supervisor can be trusted by others all the time and in every circumstance.
- My team works towards developing an environment built upon trust
- The supervisor earns the trust of employees, clients, and stakeholders by consistently demonstrating a high degree of integrity.
- Managers develop trust and confidence from others.
- Employees act with integrity to gain the trust and confidence of others.
HonestyHonesty emphasizes always being truthful, upfront, and transparent in all interactions and decisions. This dimension centers on ethical conduct, sincerity, promoting openness, and ensuring that communication and reporting are accurate. It prioritizes truthfulness and moral clarity, reinforcing a culture where honesty is foundational in every action.
- My coworkers demonstrate unwavering honesty and transparency, serving as a role model for their team.
- My manager is open and honest with others.
- My supervisor is always truthful, sincere, and able to justify their actions.
- Managers demonstrate honesty and truthfulness at all times.
- Managers promote a culture of honesty and integrity, encouraging individuals to report questionable activities without fear of reprisal.
- Employees in my department conduct themselves in an honest and upfront manner
- The supervisor provides accurate and honest reporting that allows the company to provide a true representation of financial health, operational performance, and strategic goals.
- My team leader provides honest and truthful information to others.
- Our team conducts all dealings in an honest and upfront manner.
- The supervisor builds a foundation of trust by consistently being honest even in minor situations.
TransparencyTransparency emphasizes open and honest communication, ensuring that information is shared clearly and fairly across teams. This dimension centers on disclosing both positive and negative developments, providing constructive feedback, maintaining honest discussions, and ensuring visibility into leadership actions. It prioritizes clarity and accountability, reinforcing an environment where employees trust leadership due to openness.
- The supervisor avoids speaking about others in their absence, demonstrating transparency and respect in communication.
- My manager is transparent, open and honest about their actions and decisions.
- My supervisor is open and honest in disclosing both good news and the bad.
- My supervisor is transparent about capabilities and timelines when making promises.
- Our department shares all pertinent information, not just information from one side or perspective.
- The team leader is transparent in interactions with others.
- The project manager engages in open and honest communication, provides constructive feedback, and listens to others' perspectives to demonstrate respect and support.
- My supervisor builds trust within the team and the organization through honest and transparent communication.
AccountabilityAccountability focuses on ensuring that actions align with organizational values and ethical principles, holding individuals responsible for their decisions and outcomesââ¬âwhether positive or negative. This dimension highlights fostering a culture of accountability, maintaining trust, and ensuring that employees and leaders take ownership of their responsibilities. It prioritizes structured responsibility and long-term integrity, reinforcing ethical decision-making across all levels of an organization.
- The project manager holds others accountable for their actions to build and maintain a level of trust and integrity.
- Leaders prioritize accountability to ensure that actions align with the company's value and ethical principles.
- My team leader is accountable for actions and outcomes whether positive or negative.
- My manager fosters a culture of responsibility and accountability within the organization to ensure that all actions align with the company's values and legal obligations.
- My team leader accepts responsibility for mistakes.
- Our manager demonstrates accountability and honesty in business interactions.
Admits to MistakesAdmits to Mistakes emphasizes the willingness to openly acknowledge errors and take corrective action. This dimension centers on transparency, self-awareness, owning up to missteps without being prompted, and demonstrating ethical conduct in moments of failure. It prioritizes honesty and trust-building, ensuring that individuals embrace accountability by acknowledging their mistakes and making amends.
- My coworkers admit when they are wrong without being prompted to do so.
- My manager takes responsibility for their actions and admits mistakes.
- Our manager takes responsibility for errors promptly, emphasizing a commitment to integrity, openness and ethical standards.
- My department is willing to address any shortcomings.
- Employees in my department acknowledge mistake and take responsibility, demonstrating a commitment to transparency and ethical conduct.
- The project manager admits to errors and takes responsibility, showcasing dedication to integrity, transparency and ethical behavior.
- Associates foster trust within the company and with external partners by owning up to mistakes.
- Our team accepts accountability for mistakes proactively, highlighting a dedication to transparency and ethical practices.
- My manager builds trust within the organization and with external stakeholders by owning up to mistakes.
- Employees own up to mistake without needing to be asked.
- My manager is willing to make a public apology if a data breach occurs.
- Senior executives are willing to issue product recalls if necessary.
Keeps CommitmentsKeeps Commitments focuses on following through on obligations, promises, and responsibilities to build trust and credibility. This dimension highlights fulfilling commitments, ensuring tasks are completed to the highest standard, honoring agreements, and demonstrating reliability in professional interactions. It prioritizes dependability and accountability, reinforcing an individualââ¬â¢s or organizationââ¬â¢s trustworthiness through consistent actions.
- Our team follows tasks to completion.
- Leaders take responsibility for commitments ensuring that they are met.
- The company honors all debts and fulfills contractual obligations.
- My team leader does what was promised.
- Our team delivers on promises and meets obligations.
- The department head ensures all commitments and promises are fulfilled, showcasing reliability and unwavering dedication to ethical principles.
- My supervisor delivers on all promises.
- Managers here are committed to delivering on all promises made.
- My manager delivers on promises reinforcing a pattern of trustworthy behavior.
- Our team ensures that all work is done to the highest standard, leading to better quality products and services.
- My supervisor exhibits continuity between words and actions.
- The team leader delivers on all promises made.
- I know how to follow through on commitments, which build trust and confidence.
Leads by ExampleLeads by Example emphasizes demonstrating integrity through actions and setting a high ethical standard for others to follow. This dimension centers on modeling dedication, excellence, accountability, and making principled decisions that positively influence the team and organization. It prioritizes inspirational leadership, reinforcing integrity by visibly embodying ethical principles.
- Our manager leads by example and inspires others to uphold high ethical standards in business.
- My department follows ethical standards and principles, regardless of the situation.
- The project manager inspires others to perform at their best by fostering a culture of integrity and achievement within the organization.
- Supervisors lead by example, demonstrating a strong work ethic and commitment to excellence.
- My supervisor has a high degree of integrity to set a good example of a top-down approach to maintaining ethical behavior throughout the organization.
- My manager reinforces integrity through personal example.
- Leaders exemplify commitment to integrity, dedication, and excellence, consistently aiming to positively influence the department.
- My team leader is deeply committed to making decisions that benefit the department and organization overall.
- My manager demonstrates unwavering integrity, dedication, and excellence, continually working to enhance the team's success and contribute positively to the organization.
- Coworkers are highly productive by efficiently managing time and resources to contribute significantly to the team's goals.
FairnessFairness focuses on ensuring equal treatment, objective decision-making, and equitable opportunities for all employees. This dimension highlights standardized performance evaluations, avoiding favoritism, inclusive participation, and fair workload distribution. It prioritizes justice and consistency, ensuring employees feel valued and treated fairly in every aspect of organizational operations.
- Our department ensures employees have the same (equal) access to promotions, overtime, bonuses, time off, and other benefits.
- My manager applies policies and procedural rules equally to all employees avoiding favoritism.
- The supervisor allocates responsibilities based on the employees skills and experience.
- The supervisor distributes the workload evenly among all team members.
- Our team implements checks and balances to help ensure integrity of operations.
- My manager exemplifies integrity by advocating for colleagues and standing up for what is right, even when it is difficult.
- Managers treat everyone with fairness and respect, regardless of their position or status within the organization.
- My team leader ensures employee compensation is administered fairly based on pre-established rules and regulations.
- Leaders ensure performance evaluations are conducted using standardized and objective criteria, preserving the integrity of the evaluation system.
- My supervisor conducts performance evaluations based on standard and objective measures to maintain the integrity of the evaluation system.
- Our team encourages and practices inclusivity in meetings and discussions, ensuring all voices are heard and valued.
ConfidentialityConfidentiality emphasizes protecting sensitive information and ensuring privacy in all interactions. This dimension centers on safeguarding data, implementing strict access controls, maintaining discretion, and reinforcing ethical handling of information. It prioritizes security and trust, ensuring that individuals and organizations handle confidential matters responsibly.
- My team implements strict access controls to ensure that only authorized individuals are able to access specific data records.
- Associates maintain integrity of data through appropriate use of encryption.
- Coworkers maintain the integrity and confidentiality of customer data/information/records.
- Senior executives conduct regular audit of data protection practices.
- Colleagues are able to maintain confidential information.
- Supervisors conduct regular data handling training sessions for employees.
- Our team protects the integrity and confidentiality of information.
- Our department protects the integrity and confidentiality of subject data by anonymizing personal information.
- My manager maintains the confidentiality of others.
- Our department keeps confidential information secure and respects the privacy of team members.
EthicalEthical emphasizes upholding strong moral principles and ensuring that actions align with a code of conduct. This dimension centers on adherence to ethical guidelines, promoting accountability, creating an integrity-driven culture, and ensuring leaders make principled decisions. It prioritizes moral responsibility and ethical leadership, reinforcing trust and ethical practices across all levels.
- The members of my team display a high standard of ethics and integrity.
- My team leader develops codes of conduct to provide responses to ethical dilemmas that employees may faced.
- Managers adhere to ethical principles and keep promises.
- My department created a code of conduct to guide employees on the company's expectations regarding ethics and integrity.
- My department can be trusted to do the right thing.
- The department head takes responsibility for the ethical culture created at the company and holds employees accountable for their actions.
- Employees in my department uphold strong moral and ethical standards, even when faced with challenge or temptations to compromise.
- My supervisor can be counted on to act ethically and responsibly at all times.
- Employees in my department highlight a commitment to ethical behavior and accountability.
- Our team supports good corporate ethics programs to encourage ethical behavior and integrity among employees.
- My manager fosters a high standard of ethics and integrity.
- I know how to establish a code of conduct to provide employees with clear guidelines on the company's ethical standards and integrity expectations.
- My manager exhibits a high standard of ethics and integrity
- My supervisor aspires to high organizational principles to build a firm ethical culture.
- Managers create a compliance and ethics culture where integrity is at the core of all decisions.
- Senior executives exemplify a high degree of business ethics, integrity, honesty, and fairness.
Consistency in PrinciplesConsistency in Principles focuses on upholding ethical behavior and values in all situations, ensuring unwavering integrity in both public and private settings. This dimension highlights adherence to ethical standards regardless of circumstances, demonstrating reliability, and fostering mutual trust through predictable, principled actions. It prioritizes steadfast integrity, ensuring that individuals remain true to their values and behaviors no matter the challenges they face.
- The supervisor maintains consistency in ethical behavior to foster an environment of mutual trust.
- Employees are consistent in ethical behavior, demonstrating professionalism and a commitment to the company's values.
- My supervisor maintains a consistent level of integrity in all situations to earn the trust and respect of their colleagues and subordinates.
- The team leader delivers high-quality work, ensuring that every task is completed to the best of their ability.
- My coworkers remain true to core value and principles, demonstrating respect and self-control even in challenging situations.
- The project lead demonstrates a high degree of integrity, whether in public or in private.
- Our department maintains a commitment to honesty, fairness, and transparency in all actions and interactions regardless of the potential consequences or temptations to act otherwise.
- Supervisors behave in a way that is consistent, ethical, and principled.
- My manager adheres to ethical principles and making decisions based on what is morally right, rather than opting for shortcuts or dishonest practices.
- The project lead does the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- My manager is the same person in public and in private.
- My manager exemplifies integrity and responsibility both publicly and privately.
- Leaders consistently adhere to ethical standards and values, regardless of the situation.
- My coworkers uphold the highest ethical standards, regardless of the setting.
Maintains Core PrinciplesMaintains Core Principles emphasizes making ethical decisions that align with foundational values, prioritizing long-term trust over short-term benefits. This dimension centers on upholding high standards in ethical, legal, and regulatory matters, ensuring decision-making reflects the companyââ¬â¢s core mission, and reinforcing the importance of ethical leadership even when faced with difficult choices. It prioritizes value-driven decision-making, reinforcing the belief that integrity is central to success.
- My team leader does the right thing even when negative consequence may result.
- Colleagues maintain high standard of excellence when dealing with ethical, legal, or regulatory issues.
- Our manager understands that integrity in reporting is essential for maintaining transparency and trust with stakeholders, including employees, customers, investors, and regulatory bodies.
- My team understands that the way a company does business is just as important as the quality of work.
- My team leader makes tough choices that prioritize long-term trust and credibility over short-term gains.
- My supervisor shows a profound commitment to personal integrity and performance.
- My supervisor prioritizes ethical behavior over immediate gains ensuring that actions align with values and the best interests of all stakeholders.
- Leaders make decisions that are based on core principles and not on individual circumstances.
Principled in Small MattersPrincipled in Small Matters focuses on maintaining integrity even in minor interactions and details, reinforcing trust and accountability in everyday actions. This dimension highlights attention to detail, honesty in small decisions, consistent follow-through on commitments, and fostering a workplace culture where ethical behavior is the norm. It prioritizes precision and reliability, ensuring that integrity is upheld in both big and small decisions.
- Managers build long-term relationships through honesty with customers, even in small matters.
- Employees in my department respond promptly to emails and phone messages to show respect for others' time and demonstrate reliability.
- My team maintains attention to detail ensuring that small details in work processes and documentation are accurate and complete.
- Managers pay attention to the "little things" to help maintain a positive reputation.
- My manager admits to, and corrects, even minor mistakes to foster a culture of accountability.
- Our manager maintains high standards of integrity in small matters to prevent the potential for ethical compromises to escalate.
- The supervisor recognizes and appreciates the efforts of team members regularly, even for minor tasks.
- The supervisor follows through on commitments and promises, no matter how small, to build trust and credibility.
- Our team creates a culture where ethical behavior is the norm and where employees understand that all actions, no matter how small, matter.
Supports OthersSupports Others focuses on actively helping, mentoring, and fostering growth among colleagues. This dimension highlights encouragement, creating a safe environment for discussions, providing guidance, and recognizing achievements to build a positive and trusting work culture. It prioritizes proactive support and empowerment, ensuring individuals and teams succeed through collaboration and leadership.
- Managers encourage subordinates to act with trust, integrity, and leadership.
- Our department creates an environment where employees feel comfortable discussing concerns or suggestions, no matter how small.
- My team provides mentorship and guidance to others to help them grow and develop professionally reflecting a commitment to their success and the success of the organization overall.
- The project lead encourages and recognizes the achievements and efforts of colleagues fostering a supportive and positive work environment.
- Our team serves the needs of customers with integrity and trust.
- The project leader offers sound information and advice.
Respects OthersRespects Others emphasizes demonstrating fairness, kindness, and consideration for others, regardless of differences in beliefs or perspectives. This dimension centers on ethical principles of courtesy, justice, open communication, and ensuring that all individuals feel valued. It prioritizes tolerance and dignity, fostering a respectful and inclusive workplace.
- Colleagues show respect and tolerance for others with different beliefs demonstrating integrity as a core value.
- My manager shows respect for individuals by addressing any concerns or feedback directly with them rather than discussing them behind their backs.
- My supervisor respects others as a demonstration of integrity and a core ethical principle of fairness and justice.
- Employees at the company respond with courtesy demonstrating a fundamental respect for others.
- Coworkers demonstrate integrity by respecting others, embodying the core ethical principles of fairness and justice.
- The company demonstrates integrity to create an environment where everyone feels valued and respected, boosting overall morale.
- The project lead exhibits kindness and respect towards others without seeking personal gain.
Exhibits ProfessionalismExhibits Professionalism emphasizes demonstrating composure, respect, and high ethical standards in all professional interactions. This dimension centers on handling difficult situations gracefully, fostering strong relationships, maintaining emotional maturity, and ensuring the workplace operates with excellence and ethical commitment. It prioritizes self-control and leadership, setting an example for others through unwavering professionalism.
- My supervisor maintains composure and does not react rudely when confronted with rude behavior to show self-control, emotional maturity, and integrity.
- The project manager is a dedicated and conscientious professional striving to achieve high standards of quality and level of productivity.
- The team leader handles difficult interactions with grace to set a positive example for others, promoting a culture of respect and professionalism.
- Managers show steadfast integrity, dedication, and excellence, persistently seeking to make a meaningful impact and bolster the company's success.
- The team leader takes responsibilities seriously and is dedicated to maintaining a high reputation and also the reputation of the department and organization.
- My division fosters a commitment to excellence and attention to detail.
- My manager demonstrates self-control, emotional maturity, and integrity by maintaining composure and responding courteously, even when faced with rude behavior.
- My manager builds productive working relationships with others.
- Our manager maintains a strong unwavering support for professional standards and behavior.
- My manager responds courteously even when confronted with rude behavior to show that the principles of respect and kindness are unwavering, regardless of the situation.
Interpersonal RelationshipsInterpersonal Relationships focuses on building and maintaining strong, ethical, and trustworthy connections with colleagues, leaders, and stakeholders. This dimension highlights sincerity, fairness, dependability, and fostering mutual respect in professional interactions. It prioritizes trust and relationship-building, ensuring that integrity is reflected in everyday interpersonal exchanges.
- Leaders establish relationships of trust, honesty, fairness, and integrity.
- My coworkers are reliable and dependable partners.
- My supervisor demonstrates sincerity in actions with others.
- Employees at the company maintain the highest degree of integrity in interactions with others.
- My supervisor maintains strong relationships with others.
Self-Regulation
- Employees understand the business need for self-regulation and integrity in reporting.
- Our department is committed to self-regulation.
- Coworkers recognize the critical importance of self-regulation and integrity in business operations, particularly in reporting.
- My manager upholds the highest standards of integrity, dedication, and excellence, always striving to achieve success.