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Integrity test

Roger Steare, a business ethics consultant, poses some moral dilemmas. The basic test below (which is not designed for use in a professional context), will give you an integrity score which describes your level of moral maturity. (For details of a professional integrity testing approach, please go to www.rogersteare.com).

Please note that there is no "not sure" or fence-sitting answer! Once you have completed the test for yourself, try it again with the answers you think would be given by the majority of your colleagues, outside the HR function and see how different the scores are.



1Personal and professional values should be consistent.


2As the “facilitation payment” is an essential practice in certain cultures, business should adopt the principle of “when in Rome…”


3Offshoring UK jobs is unfair to UK workers and is therefore unethical


4Employers have a moral duty to mitigate stress in the workplace, irrespective of the law or regulation


5So-called excessive executive pay is an ethical issue

 



6Directors and senior executives should accept personal responsibility and liability when organisational decisions and actions which are legal, are still found to be in breach of the organisations own ethical code


7Employers should consider personal private behaviour such as drug abuse or infidelity as indicative of the moral character of an employee


8As an HR professional, whether I work for a cancer charity or a tobacco manufacturer is an issue of personal integrity


9Decisions with regard to cost-cutting measures such as redundancies and reduced training budgets are primarily determined by economic and legal considerations and have little or no moral dimension


10As an HR professional, I believe it would be hypocritical of an employer to claim that 'integrity is the cornerstone of our business', without assessing and developing the integrity of all employees


 
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