
Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic, a CoBS Research Pod based on the work of Prof. Daniel Malan, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. Related research: The Rise and Role of the Chief Integrity Officer: Leadership imperatives in an ESG-driven world, World Economic Forum White Paper 2022.
The Governance dimension to ESG is often relegated to third place in corporate strategy. However, ethics, compliance and the attribute of integrity can be used to powerful effect to prevent risk, boost employee commitment and meaning, and become a strategic tool.
In this condensed learning capsule, Prof. Daniel Malan helps you understand the stakes and expectations at hand for corporates to commit to social, environmental, societal and even political issues, the importance of including stakeholders in decisions affecting business and its impact on communities and the wider world, and how some companies are pioneering new jobs and roles within their organisation that have integrity as a central driving force behind internal and external strategy.
Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic also projects you into reflecting how integrity affects your job role, how your company or organisation views ethics, and the degree of commitment required to go beyond business-as-usual towards business for good.
Moreover, using research and in-the-field insights this learning capsule provides you with a framework to effectively plan and make ethics and integrity an inherent part of both the firm’s business strategy, as well as employee attitude and behaviour.
Integrity: A blueprint for making it strategic, a CoBS Research Pod for managers, entrepreneurs, leaders, instructors and those with an interest in research with an impact. Ramp up your knowledge, improve your teams, gain in leadership, reshape your business or give your teaching, training or coaching a new dynamic.
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In this research pod: Research and in-the-field insights help you understand the context, reflect on the impact of integrity in your job and organisation, and give with a framework to effectively implement integrity in your company or organisation’s strategy and employee attitude and behaviour.
Useful links:
- Link up with Professor Daniel Malan on LinkedIn
- Download a related research pod: Ethics & compliance management in firms
- Discover Trinity Business School and apply for the Trinity MBA.
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The Council on Business & Society (The CoBS), visionary in its conception and purpose, was created in 2011, and is dedicated to promoting responsible leadership and tackling issues at the crossroads of business and society including sustainability, diversity, ethical leadership and the place responsible business has to play in contributing to the common good.
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- Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Warwick Business School, United Kingdom.
