As part of the project ‘Leading Integrity’ led by Warwick Business School, join us at the Shard on 4 July for a series of small, informal workshops to coordinate future research and action around the challenges related to improving organisational integrity.
Each workshop will focus on a different topic, facilitated by Edward Gardiner, Umar Taj and Avri Bilovich from the behavioural science group at WBS. The aim for each workshop will be to frame the associated challenges and develop a plan for how we might collaborate on future research and action. We’ll discuss questions such as what are your experiences of the topic, what do you think are the main problems that need to be addressed, and why do these problems continue to occur? Then in terms of future action, what are your individual goals and what should be our collective goals, and what needs to happen to achieve these goals? It would be useful if you could consider these beforehand.
The workshop topics are:
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09.30 - 11.00: Culture: What are the components of an organisational culture that positively supports ethical behaviour?
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11.30 - 13.00: Justifying inappropriate acts: What motivates unethical behaviour and what justifications do people use?
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14.00 - 15.30: Technology: How is technology hindering or helping support ethical behaviour in organisations?
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16.00 - 17.30: Transparency: How can we balance the need for publicity and privacy in highlighting and addressing unethical behaviours?
Please sign up for the workshops you are interested in by choosing your ticked type. All are welcome but we would particularly like people who have an active interest or are working on projects related to these topics.
About the project
Honesty, trust, transparency, and mutual respect are hallmarks of excellent organisations; and strengthening such organisational integrity is typically a key aim of leaders and other employees, as well as, increasingly, being demanded by the media and the public.
Yet a succession of high-profile scandals, ranging from safety failures, corruption, and false accounting to sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination, continue to plague business, charities and the public sector.
It is easy to blame individual "bad apples" for problems with organisational integrity. But, more often than not, the incentives, culture and structure in an organisation may be the real culprits.
This project aims to challenge, debate, and distil insights from considering how we should understand why businesses exists and how they, and their employees, can flourish.