1. Topic 4 ~ Intro to Integrity

2. When Facing an Ethical decision . . .
Decide whether there is a Professional Obligation to do the Right Thing
Is your Job a Profession?
If your Job is a Profession, is there a Professional Obligation to be Ethical? (Opportunity + Need)
If there is a Professional Obligation:
Follow the Process:
Decide what is the right thing to do.
Be motivated to do the right thing.
Have a happy heart when doing the right thing.

3. What does it mean, to live with “integrity”
To live with “Integrity” you must have:
Compassion
Courage
Conviction
Your Convictions will be based upon:
Your Own Values
Informed, Respectful Exchanges with Others
Careful Research and Accurate, Honest Evalutaion

4. This Semester, You will have lots of opportunities or chances to:
Identify your own values
Examine your values: logical assessment/evaluation
Explore key points of integrity and develop them within

5. Goal
You will learn how to:
Live with Integrity
Lead with Integrity

6. Three Key Words
Living
Leadership
Integrity

7. How do you “live with integrity?”
Living with Integrity means enjoying the “Fullness of Life”: calls upon us to be present and involves thriving in your own humanity.
This includes:
Friendships
Basic Material Comforts
Intelligence
Appreciation of Beauty
Consciously living a morally sensitive life

8. Group Discussion
You and a female friend are studying abroad and interning at a massive company. This company pays for the study abroad trip and the president of your department has a close relationship with your professor. Your friend comes to you and confesses that her department boss is sexually harassing her. She is shy and uncomfortable, and is too scared to make a big issue of it. You know that what this boss is doing is wrong. You know that other girls from later years may have to work with him. You know that you are a guest in this country and this company, and you were all told to respect your superiors and make a good impression. Your friend wants you to remain quiet. What do you do?

9. How do you “lead with Integrity”
Five essential features of good leaders:
They model the way
Inspire a shared vision
Challenge the Process
Enable others to act
Encourage the heart.
You can do none of these without integrity:
Doing what you think is right, even when this means leading and not following the crowd. Your conviction to do what is right will bring others along.

10. Read Paragraph 2 on page 3
What of the 5 leadership qualities did Ms. Watkins demonstrate?
They model the way
Inspire a shared vision
Challenge the Process
Enable others to act
Encourage the heart.

11. Personally, Additional quality
The ability to know when to obey, because that is also doing the right thing.

12. Qualities: #1, 3, 4, 5 Also showed --- Courage & Conviction
 Watkins took responsibility and reported the unethical
 Watkins: Was a good person who did NOT look the other way, did NOT ignore the situation
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (&/or women) do nothing” --- Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher

13. Take out a piece of paper:
Take a moment and think about whether you possess these leadership qualities?
Are you strong in some of them?
Are there some you need to develop more?
How might you improve on them?

14. Groups
Each Team, pick a leadership quality and think of one way to practice strengthening that quality

15. People with Integrity:
Understand and communicate their own values, but also are able to understand and communicate with people who have different values.
Are imaginative and are good at thinking about the long and short term consequences of different strategies
Respect and care for people and build successful relationships
When they disagree, they don’t lose their temper
Are brave, honest, humble, and fair
Understand the role of ethics in their personal, civic, and working lives.
Have a robust sense of justice and work to create more just institutions.

16. Take out a piece of paper:
Take a moment and think about whether you possess these leadership qualities?
Are you strong in some of them?
Are there some you need to develop more?
How might you improve on them?

17. Why should you have integrity?
Two Reasons:
Socrates: Wise people will simply understand why you should do the right thing.
Aristotle: Having integrity is part of living a full, complete, and happy life. (Death Bed)
Reasons in the Workplace:
Integrity alone does not make organizations effective, but without integrity no organization is effective.
No teamwork
No commitment
Globally,
Unless our world operates on integrity, individuals cannot act with integrity.

18. one person does something that hurts someone else =
Personal Misconduct
Wrongdoing =
one person does something that hurts someone else =
personal misconduct

19. Out of Ignorance (Aristotle, Kant, Plato, Buddhism)
Causes
Out of Ignorance (Aristotle, Kant, Plato, Buddhism)
Two Types of Ignorance:
Ignorant of what is right or wrong
Ignorant of whether something is in the category of right or wrong.
Example: Lying
Know telling a lie is wrong
Telling a Lie to not hurt other’s feelings and you believe this is not a lie.

20. doing the wrong thing simply to do wrong.
Causes
Malice (Aristotle):
doing the wrong thing simply to do wrong.
You know your behavior is wrong, but do it anyway.

21. Weakness of Will (Aristotle):
Causes
Weakness of Will (Aristotle):
wants to do the right thing, but has desires conflicting with it.
Mind knows what is right, but your emotions conflict.
We have all sorts of excuses.

22. Failure of Empathy (Hume)
Causes
Failure of Empathy (Hume)
“Blaming the victim” so you feel no guilt.

23. Cures Ignorance and Malice Pay Attention to what is happening.
Know what is right and wrong. Know how to find out what is right and wrong.
Develop courage, compassion, Conviction
Practice and Watch Others.
Make Being Good a Habit
Don’t desensitize yourself to human suffering.
Never start being bad, it’s a hard road to come back from.

24. Cures
Weakness of Will
You have your mind, heart, and spirit to tell you what to do. So do it.
If it is because you are afraid, remember that most fears are “False Evidence Appearing Real.”
Reject Excuses

25. Cures
Lack of Empathy
Connect with Others
Get Involved

26. Is “Business Ethics” an oxymoron
Why Yes?
Business is cutthroat, and the rules do not apply.
Self-defense, Survival
Obligation to get the most profit for clients
Why No?
People cannot survive by themselves, we must commit to a civil society.
“War of all against all,” where “life is nasty, poor, brutish, and short.”
Level playing field.
Relationship with clients does not trump duty to society.
Why is it actually a benefit?
Public relations is important to encouraging trust amongst clients.
The success of an organization depends on its employees’ ethics.

27. Group Discussion
Your company has a firm policy regarding cases of theft of company property. Used company equipment is on a table to be sold by bid each month. You see a valued employee who is 2 months from retirement slip an electric drill from the table and put it in his car before the day of the sale. What so you do?