“Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential for success in life – All areas of life. The really good news is that anyone can develop both honesty and integrity.” – Zig Ziglar
Both terms, honesty and integrity are to
be held in high regards being absolutely essential for success in all
the areas of life including profession. Having honesty and integrity not
only creates value in every communication, but it also leads
to build the foundation of trust and confidence.
Honesty does not just
imply refusal to lie, but it does to live life with fairness and
straightforwardness, whereas, integrity implies the quality of
possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles.
Etymologically the word Integrity has come from the Latin adjective word, integer,
meaning entire, whole or complete. Integrity means following moral
convictions and doing right things in all circumstances. It plays a
vital role in the tenure of one’s employment and it has a lot to do in
return for it. Let’s discuss as to how having honesty and integrity is
important in the workplace.
Before we go any further, let’s discuss about the difference between the terms honesty and integrity.
Honesty is the quality, condition, or characteristic of being fair,
truthful and morally upright, while integrity is the quality of
possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or
professional standards. It also means complete or undivided. A person
can have honesty without integrity, but he or she cannot have integrity
without honesty, so honesty is the basis for maintaining integrity of
conduct, as integrity means having moral character and living by
possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles.
It must be noted that the attainment of
total organizational development is owing to the total organizational
competencies and the total organizational competence is achieved if the
employees serve the organization having honesty and integrity while
working effectively and efficiently. The quality of being honest
involves the employees to think in the right manner and behave with
integrity. It thus advocates, being loyal to the owners, being punctual
to the company, adhering to the rules and regulations of the company,
maintaining the timings of the company and producing the results that
are expected of.
Maintaining honesty and Integrity of
conduct is a proven virtue that benefits you in many ways. It’s nothing
but the quality of having honesty and integrity that leads to sincerity
gaining trust and reliability from others; enabling you to make
commitments and put
the efforts with consistency, which, all in all, will lead you to
improve the level of competence that in turn results in gaining respect
and professional development and success.
An employee who performs his duties
maintaining honesty and integrity is to be recognized as one of the best
employees, while it leads him to success and to reap better results in
lieu of this quality. Such a quality is this that is always preferred
and looked for in the employees, as it can lead to the attainment of
those results that are wanted or intended. It is implied that an honest
employee is the leading exponent of organizational goals and objectives
and he can put his earnest efforts accordingly to the total
organizational competencies, effectiveness and efficiencies. It’s worth
mentioning that one should “Speak with honesty; think with sincerity; act with integrity.”
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