<$BlogRSDUrl$>
 

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

 Feedblitz email:
 RSS: http://linkingintegrity.blogspot.com/atom.xml

 

linking INTEGRITY

Integrity - use of values or principles to guide action in the situation at hand.

Below are links and discussion related to the values of freedom, hope, trust, privacy, responsibility, safety, and well-being, within business and government situations arising in the areas of security, privacy, technology, corporate governance, sustainability, and CSR.

See-through management, 13.8.04

IT World Canada

[...]

Transparency is a laudable aim. But there are limits. Zingerman's, an internationally renowned thriving food business, practices open-book management. Employees at every level are invited to participate and give input to department and organizational meetings. Financials are wholly revealed. There is an exception: salaries remain private. Staff are curious, of course. But people are also curious about all manner of things: fires, wrecks celebrity tattletales. Some things — compensation, medical records and personal histories — can and should remain private.

There is an old saying that character is what you do when no one is looking. Perhaps we need to proclaim that saying and adapt it to modern management: "character is managing without anyone around." Actually, there is such a phrase for this: transparent leadership, the act of putting the needs and concerns of people first so the whole organization prospers. That ideal is often not possible, but it is something good to strive for. Because when it does occur, no one ever asks, "What were they thinking?" Indeed!


Comments

Post a Comment

 

Google

Integrity Incorporated

Site Feed

 Feedblitz email:


 RSS: http://linkingintegrity.blogspot.com/atom.xml


"We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: "smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.
Compromise need not mean cowardice. .."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "Profiles in Courage"

Archives

07.03   08.03   09.03   10.03   11.03   12.03   01.04   02.04   03.04   04.04   05.04   06.04   07.04   08.04   09.04   10.04   11.04   12.04   01.05   02.05   03.05   04.05   05.05   06.05   07.05   08.05   09.05   10.05   11.05   12.05   01.06   02.06   03.06   04.06   05.06   06.06   08.06   09.06   10.06   11.06   01.07   02.07   03.07   04.07   07.07   08.07   09.07   10.07   05.08   06.08