What is acting with a lack of integrity?

Acting with integrity at work means performing your role properly and carefully, while taking responsibilities and the applicable norms and values within an organisation into account. Integrity is a valuable personal quality that shows you are sincere and honest. In business, this means, for example, that you cannot be bribed and that you do not abuse your position of power.

What people consider to be acting with or without integrity depends on society and the time in which we live. Within each organisation, the interpretation of integrity may have a slightly different meaning. In general, it means that you are aware of your employer’s vision and professional code of conduct and that you do not deviate from these for personal gain.

Some of these rules are included in your company’s code of conduct, but of course not everything can be captured in rules. When certain rules are missing, it is up to you as an employee to judge whether something is appropriate or not.