Integrity as Moral Ideal and Business Benchmark

The increasing appeal of integrity in business may not only imply an acknowledgment that integrity has in fact all along been in short supply, but also suggest that its moral value has been short-changed into its function to increase profit. It will therefore be necessary to reconstruct the concept of integrity in light of an interpretation that takes up the various strands of meaning and ties them together in the comprehensive vision of the good life grounded in the ethics of respect for persons. This will put the moral implications of integrity into sharper profile and set benchmarks for socially attuned and responsible business.